Greek in Tiny Core Linux

[sotris99]

Hello I am a new member of tiny core linux. I found out about that yesterday through puppy linux forum. This operating system is amazing plus it has dosbox!!! Yay!!!

I have two questions

1) How can i add greek fonts to have the ability to read in greek when i am using firefox? Can i use the windows fonts for that (it is the easiest source of fonts)

2) How can i write into greek?

[sotris99]

i have the Ariag.ttf on sda5

i used the command cp -i /mnt/sda5/Ariag.ttf /usr/share/fonts/Ariag.ttf and it says something to overwrite

[curaga]

Yes, ttf fonts work in apps supporting such. Use "sudo cp" if copying to system directories.

However, it might be better to copy them to your home directory:

mkdir /home/tc/.fonts
cp -i /mnt/sda5/Ariag.ttf /home/tc/.fonts

[tsianos1]

i have the Ariag.ttf on sda5

i used the command cp -i /mnt/sda5/Ariag.ttf /usr/share/fonts/Ariag.ttf and it says something to overwrite

ty for answering...

[Michael Wells]

I was able to get Greek font encoding working in Chromium simply by installing the dejavu-fonts-ttf-tcz package ... thanks to postings in the How to setup cyrillic fonts? topic posting at http://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php?topic=6734.msg35350   [Edit #1: fixed URL]

There was also info about getting other encodings to work in a console as well.

Michael Wells

[Edit #2] - I realised that I didn't give very clear instructions about getting the Greek font working in Chromium:
1) Install dejavu-fonts-ttf-tcz package,
2) Open preferences in Chromium by clicking on the wrench tool to the right of the URL box,
3) Select the Under The Hood tab and click the 'Change font and language settings' button,
4) Under the 'Fonts and Encoding' tab select 'Greek 8859-7' default encoding
5) Under the 'Languages' tab click the 'Add' button and add Greek,
6) Click close and close and restart Chromium, Greek text should now be readable.
7) Use Backup if you want the Chromium settings to survive reboots.

[tinypoodle]

url in upper post is b0rked. removing one "http://" it works