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.
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