xfonts-intl-phonetic

international fonts for X - International Phonetic Alphabet

This package includes some fonts of the International Phonetic Alphabet. You will need these fonts if you plan to view, print, or author documents using the International Phonetic Alphabet. IPA is used, for instance, in dictionaries to represent pronunciations in a non-language-specific way.

xfonts-intl-arabic

international fonts for X - Arabic

This package includes some Arabic fonts (digits and single and double column characters). You will need these fonts if you plan to view, print, or author documents written in an Arabic script.

xfonts-intl-asian

international fonts for X - (south-east) Asian

This package includes some Indian, Lao, Thai, and Vietnamese fonts. You will need these fonts if you plan to view, print, or author documents written in the above languages/scripts.

xfonts-intl-chinese

international fonts for X - Chinese

This package includes some GB2312, GB8565-88, Big5 (ETen), and SiSheng Chinese fonts. You will need these fonts if you plan to view, print, or author documents written in Chinese using the above encodings.

xfonts-intl-japanese

international fonts for X - Japanese

This package includes some JISX0201 (Roman and Kana), JISX0208.1978, JISX0208.1983, JISX0208.1990, and JISX0212.1990 (HojoKanji) Japanese fonts. You will need these fonts if you plan to view, print, or author documents written in Japanese using the above encodings.

unifont

font with a glyph for each visible Unicode Plane 0 character

This package is a convenient way to install the PCF bitmap version, PSF bitmap version, and the scalable OpenType outline version of "Unifont" (intended for general-purpose use) and "Unifont Sample" (which contains combining circles to use for illustration purposes). It also installs a copy of unifont.hex and related files in /usr/share/unifont.