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authorEli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>2000-10-08 08:53:46 +0000
committerEli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>2000-10-08 08:53:46 +0000
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(Language Environments): Mention the requirement to have a suitable font
installed, for displaying a given language.
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@@ -194,6 +194,14 @@ sign), Polish, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Thai, Tibetan, Turkish, and
Vietnamese.
@end quotation
+@cindex fonts, for displaying different languages
+ To be able to display the script(s) used by your language environment
+on a windowed display, you need to have a suitable font installed. If
+some of the characters appear as empty boxes, download and install the
+GNU Intlfonts distribution, which includes fonts for all supported
+scripts. @xref{Fontsets}, for more details about setting up your
+fonts.
+
@findex set-locale-environment
@vindex locale-language-names
@vindex locale-charset-language-names