Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!ucsd!ucbvax!ANDREW.CMU.EDU!tpn+ From: tpn+@ANDREW.CMU.EDU (Tom Neuendorffer) Newsgroups: comp.soft-sys.andrew Subject: Re: 8-bit characters, how to use ? Message-ID: Date: 8 Nov 90 19:52:21 GMT References: Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 71 Many people reading Christer's reply may wonder why they didn't see the advertised umlaut's. As he mentioned, we don't currently have a good solution for those reading unformatted mail . But if you normally get formatted mail and are having problems, the following should help you fix things up. If the second letter in J|rgen appears as an u-umlaut, you are in good shape, ignore this message. If it appears as a vertical bar (J|rgen), then you are running a fairly old version of ATK. If you expose styles, you will note an undefined style around the bar with the name '@' (i.e. \@{|}). This is how we specified that the high-bit should be turned on. It is backward compatible in that if this file is rewritten, the old ATK maintains the information. Patches are available to upgrade you to a more recent version; see the recent post by Susan (Re: What is andrew (CMU, I know that!) ?). If it appears as a hex number ( J\374rgen), this indicates that you have the right version of ATK, but are using the wrong fonts. If you have all of the fonts that came with that X11.R4 distribution from MIT, this can be fixed by installing the non-andrew font alias file as either the standard font alias file for your system, or for yourself on an individual basis. To make it standard for your system, just copy /xmkfontd/non-andrew.fonts.alias to $ANDREWDIR/X11fonts/fonts.alias, and either restart x or run' xset fp rehash'. Once installed and working, you will be able to delete the cou* hel* and tim* font files from $ANDREWDIR/X11fonts, since they will be replaced by their ISO counterparts from the R4 distribution. I would recommend that all sites that expect to use this feature install this alias file. We will try to get something put in the next patch that will set this up automatically according to a site.mcr file variable. To install it on an individual basis, do something like mkdir ~/myxfonts mkfontdir ~/myxfonts cp ANDREW_SOURCE_DIR/xmkfontd/non-andrew.fonts.alias ~/myxfonts/fonts.alias xset +fp ~/myxfonts xset fp rehash The xset +fp call can be added to your .xinitrc file to add the directory when you start up X. Note: Once this alias file is installed, users will note greater space between lines of text in ez, messages, etc. This is not a bug, it simply reflects the fact that the height of these fonts has to be greater, in order to allow room for accents over capital letters. At this point, you should hopefully be able to view files containing ISO characters. For help in entering these characters, see the help file on cpchar (run help cpchar). Other information is given in my 'ATK + 8859 = Multi-lingual Text and Mail' paper in the recent EUUG (now Europen) proceedings. While I am at it, I would like to that Rob Ryan for all of his work in getting the ISO stuff together. Thanks Rob! If you have more problems or questions, please let us know. Regards, Tom N. --------------------------- Tom Neuendorffer (tpn@andrew.cmu.edu) Manager-ATK Group Information Technology Center Carnegie Mellon University 4910 Forbes Ave. Pittsburgh, Pa. 15213-3890