[GRASSLIST:3264] Re: [GRASS5] Hugarian and other ISO8859-2 languages in GRASS

[Hamish]

> I'm not sure, but once I read, that someone  wrote about
> implementation  hungarian (and other ISO8859-2) specific letters in
> GRASS.  The problem was resolved at about 2 years ago. It is possible
> to use those letters in GRASS monitor and with printer commands. The
> GRASS polish fonts are from 2 years available, and (after some
> letters) now I've decided to create the GRASS fonts with all ISO8859-2
> fonts and HOWTO. I suppose, they will be ready to use at the end of
> may. I've created  tools (http://wgug.meteo.uni.wroc.pl/ - link
> "pliki" - take three last files and unpack - documentation is in
> english & pilish language. With these tools you can very easy
> create/modify GRASS fonts.

You can probably just use d.text.freetype to display most (but not yet all)
TrueType fonts on your system.

try:
d.text.freetype path=/path/to/font.ttf

see also:
d.text, d.font


regards,
Hamish