On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 05:51:59AM EDT, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: > Chris Jones wrote: > > > 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? > > The Debian package xfonts-efont-unicode has very wide character > coverage (incl. Chinese/Japanese). For tips on how to set it up, > google my page "Configuring xterm for UTF-8".
I also found your general discussion re: International Text on Linux. Looks promising. I gave the efont packages a shot and at pxlsz 16 the font looks great at least where I can formulate an opinion - for alphabet-based scripts - and it pretty much passes the test provided by Markus Kuhn in his UTF8 demo file. [..] > > xfd from the x11-utils package is fine, but it does not appear > > to support Truetype fonts. > > The efonts aren't Truetype. You get the oldfashioned xterm "look & > feel". I guess that's because the efont comes in a variety of sizes - the GNU unifont has tons of glyphs but only a "*-16-160-*" version and appears to have been converted to the .ttf format to provide something scalable at a more affordable cost. Thanks, CJ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
