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Προβλήματα με γραμματοσειρές και ελληνικά (πρόβλημα με μ και π)

Τι πρόβλημα υπάρχει στο παρακάτω στιγμιότυπο; Πρόκειται για πρόβλημα στην επιλογή των γραμματοσειρών που θα απεικονίσουν τους χαρακτήρες ενός κειμένου. Αυτό που συμβαίνει στο παραπάνω παράδειγμα, είναι ότι ο συγκεκριμένος δικτυακός τόπος καθορίζει και παρέχει μια συγκεκριμένη γραμματοσειρά για την εμφάνιση του κειμένου, ωστόσο η γραμματοσειρά δεν υποστηρίζει το πλήρες σετ χαρακτήρων που χρειάζονται τα …

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Ubuntu Font Beta and Greek

Screenshot-Waterfall DejaVu Polytonic

Update: All open bugs for this font at https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntufontbetatesting/+bugs File your bug. Currently there bugs relating to Greek, 1. Letter γ ((U03B3) has an untypical style 2.  In letters with YPOGEGRAMMENI, YPOGEGRAMMENI is expected to be under not on the right and 3. Many Greek small letters have untypical style Here we see some samples …

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Stix Fonts, eventually out.

StixFonts in OpenOffice.org 3.2 (Insert Special Character)

The StixFonts project is a project to produce high quality fonts for academic publications. It has been in progress for over ten years and there has been a beta about two years and a half ago. At the same time there had been a discussion on the relevant license for these fonts. The first draft …

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OpenType support in OpenOffice 3.2 (Greek)

The new version 3.2 of OpenOffice.org is being developed and you can currently download the release candidate for your testing purposes. A big enhancement in OpenOffice.org 3.2 is the support for OpenType fonts. A typical Linux user is able to do most of the tasks with TrueType fonts, however any new exciting fonts available are …

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Workaround for bad fonts in Google Earth 5 (Linux)

Update Jan 2010: The following may not work anymore. Use with caution. See relevant discussions at http://forum.ubuntu-gr.org/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=15607 and especially http://kigka.blogspot.com/2010/11/google-6.html Older post follows: So you just installed Google Earth 5 and you can’t figure out what’s wrong with the fonts? If your language does not use the Latin script, you cannot see any text? Here …

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Today you’ll make history with Firefox

Today you’ll make history with Firefox Are you ready to make history? Are you ready to set a World Record? Today is Download Day. To become part of the official Guinness World Record you must download Firefox 3 by 17:00 18:15 UTC on June 18, 2008, or roughly 24 hours from now. Download page with …

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