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Here are the consolidated answers for the original question from
Adam Reed (Adam_V_Reed@att.com):

     Is there an ftp site for X Window System fonts for Central-Eastern
     European (Latin-2) languages (iso8859-2)? If such sites exist
     in North America as well as Europe, what are their addresses?
     Does SUN supply such fonts to their Central-Eastern Europe
     customers? Is anyone using iso8859-2 fonts with any version of
     SunOS 4.1.? or Solaris? Thanks,


Jeff
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Sender: Andrej Brodnik <abrodnik@watdragon.uwaterloo.ca>

As far as I know -- no; but I'd love to learn about it! All what we have here
I found were "etl" fonts which also include iso-8859-{3,4,9}.


Sender: Byrial Jensen (byrial@daimi.aau.dk)

Some days ago you asked in the internationalization mailing list
(I read it as newsgroup bit.software.international) about
the source for a published description of ISO 8859-x standards.
I think you get the answer in the forwarded article below.

It seems that they changed the directory structure of the ftp-site.
The file is now in the directory: /pub/comp/doc/standards/iso8859/

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From: kosta@bass.blues.sub.de (Kosta Kostis)
Date: Mon, 05 Apr 93 17:59:54 EDT
Newsgroups: comp.std.internat
Subject: ISO 8859-x descriptions available via FTP
Lines: 22

Hi there!

The descriptions of ISO 8859-x including conversion tables to other
encodings like IBM Code Page 850, Mac Roman, NeXTSTEP Encoding are
available via FTP from:

   ftp.informatik.tu-muenchen.de:/pub/doc/standards/iso8859/iso8859.txt.z

~Title:          Description of the ISO 8859 encodings.
Author:         "Kosta Kostis" <kosta@kostis.kk.sub.org>
Format:         Text, gzip'ed
Language:       German, English

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Sender: Libor Skarvada <libor@dcs.muni.cz>
        Department of Computing Science, Masaryk University, Brno

I have one (monospaced, 8*16) font -- bold, upright, with serifs,
pc-vga-like. If you are interested I'll send it to you (in .bdf format).
So far it is my only latin-2 font for X, so I am also curious
if there is an ftp site for more of them...

There are rumors that Solaris 2.3 will be localized for Central-Eastern
Europe languages including latin-2 fonts.


Sender: Peter Ilieve <peter@memex.co.uk>

Sun have a Czech/Hungarian/Polish localisation kit for Solaris 2.1.
Within that, the SUNWchp2 package has three 8859-2 fonts, Arial, Courier and
Times, each in normal, bold, italic and bold italic.
These are in Folio format so are usable with any OpenWindows setup.

It is possible to convert these to BDF form for use on any X system
but it is not easy as much of the Sun font conversion software is broken.

I have converted the Courier ones to BDF and used them with SunOS 4.1.3
running X11R5.