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Make your Ubuntu ‘shell to browser’ interpret any of your favorite language!
Posted January 4, 2009
on:- In: Programming
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1. Search for fonts
$ apt-cache search $favorite_language font
This would search fonts for you, and would probability end up getting the stuff from ubuntu universe.
ttf-ancient-fonts
ttf-indic-fonts
ttf-kannada-fonts
$ apt-cache search indic font groff - GNU troff text-formatting system libqscintilla2-3 - The Qt4 port of the Scintilla source code editing widget texlive-lang-indic - TeX Live: Indic texlive-latex-extra - TeX Live: LaTeX supplementary packages ttf-indic-fonts - Metapackage for free Indian language fonts ttf-indic-fonts-core - Core collection of free Indian language fonts ttf-unifont - TrueType version of the GNU Unifont unifont - font with a glyph for each visible Unicode 5.1 Plane 0 character xfonts-unifont - PCF (bitmap) version of the GNU Unifont itrans-fonts - fonts used in the ITRANS Indic text processing system libhtml-tagcloud-perl - Generate HTML indexes of popular tags liblasi-dev - development files and documentation for the LASi library liblasi0 - creation of PostScript documents containing Unicode symbols qemacs - Small emacs clone editor with HTML and DocBook editing support qemacs-nox - Small emacs clone editor (without X support) $ apt-cache search ancient font texlive-lang-greek - TeX Live: Greek typesetting ttf-sil-gentium - Gentium extended Unicode Latin font ("a typeface for the nations") ttf-ancient-fonts - Unicode Fonts for Ancient Scripts ttf-gfs-baskerville - Ancient Greek font revival ttf-gfs-complutum - ancient Greek font revival from the University of Alcalá, Spain ttf-gfs-gazis - ancient Greek font (Byzantine cursive hand style) ttf-gfs-solomos - ancient Greek oblique font ttf-gfs-theokritos - decorative Greek font ttf-linex - Fonts suitable for education and institutional use
2. Install the fonts
$ sudo apt-get install ttf-indic-fonts $ sudo apt-get install ttf-ancient-fonts $ sudo apt-get install ttf-kannada-fonts
Installing above three would enable your browser interpret my previous blogs and even let you enjoy running examples on your shell.
- UTF-7 heptade sequence – Encode Devanagari (ॐ) or Bopomofo (ㄋㄧㄊㄧㄋ)
- UTF-8 using plain hands
- I am no expert but what did you do Joel? eeeeh!!! (No Excuses!) its 2009 😉
For RHEL
Could not find the ancient fonts but everything else is available.
$ sudo yum install fonts-kannada.noarch $ sudo yum install fonts-tamil.noarch $ sudo yum install fonts-hindi.noarch
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