Adding Armenian Fonts to Squirrelmail

[B. Alex]

I would like to add an Armenian font to be used in Squirrelmail.  The font would be Arial AM, or Arial Armenian.  I can't seem to find out how to change fonts beyond the few that are already supplied with Squirrelmail.

Can any body help me out?

Thanks.

[Tomas Kuliavas]

B. Alex wrote:

I would like to add an Armenian font to be used in Squirrelmail.  The font would be Arial AM, or Arial Armenian.  I can't seem to find out how to change fonts beyond the few that are already supplied with Squirrelmail.

Can any body help me out?

Thanks.

Verdana and Tahoma support Armenian characters. Some browsers automatically select alternative fonts, if selected font does not support symbols used on page.

If Arial Armenian and Arial AM are standard fonts and not some hacks with Armenian symbols in Western codepoints, you might try adding Arial Unicode MS, DejaVu Sans, Arial Armenian and Arial AM to sans-08.css, sans-10.css and sans-12.css files in SquirrelMail themes/css directory or create own css file and set it in SquirrelMail configuration.

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Tomas

[B. Alex]

Neither Verdana nor Tahoma seems to be accepting the Armenian typeface.  I have looked into downloading one of the "Add-ons", but I was unable to open it and I don't even know which one I should download.

In addition you said to "add files in SquirrelMail themes/css directory".  The only themes that show up is in "options/display preferences" and they do not apply to this.  Also I don't see anything that applies to the "css directory".

I am using the 1.4.13 version of Squirrelmail.

This is new for me and I appologize for being a nuisance.

Alex

   

Tomas Kuliavas wrote:

B. Alex wrote:

I would like to add an Armenian font to be used in Squirrelmail.  The font would be Arial AM, or Arial Armenian.  I can't seem to find out how to change fonts beyond the few that are already supplied with Squirrelmail.

Can any body help me out?

Thanks.

Verdana and Tahoma support Armenian characters. Some browsers automatically select alternative fonts, if selected font does not support symbols used on page.

If Arial Armenian and Arial AM are standard fonts and not some hacks with Armenian symbols in Western codepoints, you might try adding Arial Unicode MS, DejaVu Sans, Arial Armenian and Arial AM to sans-08.css, sans-10.css and sans-12.css files in SquirrelMail themes/css directory or create own css file and set it in SquirrelMail configuration.

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Tomas

[Tomas Kuliavas]

B. Alex wrote:

Tomas Kuliavas wrote:

B. Alex wrote:

I would like to add an Armenian font to be used in Squirrelmail.  The font would be Arial AM, or Arial Armenian.  I can't seem to find out how to change fonts beyond the few that are already supplied with Squirrelmail.

Can any body help me out?

Thanks.

Verdana and Tahoma support Armenian characters. Some browsers automatically select alternative fonts, if selected font does not support symbols used on page.

If Arial Armenian and Arial AM are standard fonts and not some hacks with Armenian symbols in Western codepoints, you might try adding Arial Unicode MS, DejaVu Sans, Arial Armenian and Arial AM to sans-08.css, sans-10.css and sans-12.css files in SquirrelMail themes/css directory or create own css file and set it in SquirrelMail configuration.

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Tomas

Neither Verdana nor Tahoma seems to be accepting the Armenian typeface.  I have looked into downloading one of the "Add-ons", but I was unable to open it and I don't even know which one I should download.

In addition you said to "add files in SquirrelMail themes/css directory".  The only themes that show up is in "options/display preferences" and they do not apply to this.  Also I don't see anything that applies to the "css directory".

I am using the 1.4.13 version of Squirrelmail.

This is new for me and I appologize for being a nuisance.

Alex

Found Arial AM and Arial Armenian on the net. They are not standard fonts, but hacks from previous millennium with Armenian characters in Western codepoints. These fonts are obsolete.

See font descriptions
Arial Unicode MS - http://www.microsoft.com/typography/fonts/font.aspx?FMID=1081
Verdana - http://www.microsoft.com/typography/fonts/font.aspx?FMID=1817
Tahoma - http://www.microsoft.com/typography/fonts/font.aspx?FMID=1805
DejaVu Sans -
http://dejavu.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/dejavu/trunk/dejavu-fonts/langcover.txt
All these fonts support Armenian. Only eternity sign might cause issues.

Please note, that if you use SquirrelMail bundled in some server control panels or sold by third party, you are not using SquirrelMail. Some third party SquirrelMail mods remove all standard SquirrelMail css files. Standard SquirrelMail 1.4.13 (http://squirrelmail.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/squirrelmail/tags/rel-1_4_13/themes/css/) has themes/css directory with 14 different CSS files.

If some Armenian emails are not displayed correctly, you should enable message_details plugin and check character set used in those emails. SquirrelMail does not have ArmSCII decoders. If emails are written in ArmSCII-8, they will be unreadable.

"Armenian typeface" is relict from Windows 9x and Word 7.0 times. Modern operating systems don't use these hacks and have normal fonts with Armenian support. See http://www.topolis.lt/unicode/armenian.html. Armenian is displayed without any hacks or custom fonts in Firefox and Opera. Can't test Internet Explorer right now.

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Tomas