Chris Jones: > > Wondering if anyone has some multilingual experience with terminal-based > applications such as mutt for mail, text-mode browsers - ELinks here... > irc clients, etc. and would be able to provide some advice. > > How should I set up my terminal - xterm - and what might be a good > unicode fixed font that could make the experience more true to life?
I am using xfce4-terminal (modern but lightweight Gtk+ application) and Deja Vu Mono and all my foreign spam is rendered nicely in mutt. :) I think you just have to install font packages for cyrillic, chinese etc. and xfce4-terminal picks them up automatically. $ dpkg -l xfonts-\* | grep ^ii ii xfonts-100dpi 1:1.0.0-4 100 dpi fonts for X ii xfonts-75dpi 1:1.0.0-4 75 dpi fonts for X ii xfonts-base 1:1.0.0-6 standard fonts for X ii xfonts-encodings 1:1.0.2-3 Encodings for X.Org fonts ii xfonts-intl-arabic 1.2.1-7 International fonts for X -- Arabic ii xfonts-intl-asian 1.2.1-7 International fonts for X -- Asian ii xfonts-intl-chinese 1.2.1-7 International fonts for X -- Chinese ii xfonts-intl-european 1.2.1-7 International fonts for X -- European ii xfonts-intl-japanese 1.2.1-7 International fonts for X -- Japanese ii xfonts-intl-phonetic 1.2.1-7 International fonts for X -- Phonetic Alphab ii xfonts-jmk 3.0-18 James M. Knoble's character-cell fonts for X ii xfonts-mathml 2 Type1 Symbol font for MathML ii xfonts-scalable 1:1.0.0-7 scalable fonts for X ii xfonts-terminus 4.28-1 Fixed-width fonts for fast reading ii xfonts-utils 1:7.4+1 X Window System font utility programs J. -- My drug of choice is self-pity. [Agree] [Disagree] <http://www.slowlydownward.com/NODATA/data_enter2.html>
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