On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 01:28:08PM EDT, Paul Scott wrote: > Chris Jones wrote: >> >>> Chris Jones <cjns1...@gmail.com> writes: >>> >>> >>>> Wondering if anyone has some multilingual experience with terminal-based > (snip) > >> There was another reply recommending unicode-rxvt in this thread, so >> I'll take a look as soon as time allows. >> >> Main reasons I not sure about switching are that I have done a bit of >> 256-color customization that probably won't "just work" with urxvt, and >> more importantly, xterm support via mailing lists & newsgroups is very >> quick and to the point. > > uxterm ? It's in my Debian menu under terminal emulators.
I didn't read the fine print, but uxterm is only a short wrapper that sets the locale if not UTF-8 and exec's xterm with the -u8 flag. The issue here is whether xterm is fontconfig-aware and has the ability to do what Andrei says urxvt does: gracefully switch to a different font when the default font lacks a certain range of glyphs (unicode plane?). Per ldd, on lenny, xterm is linked to libfontconfig - but all the same, in my setup, font substitution is not happening. :-( Note that I know very little about fontconfig, so someone correct me if I'm wrong. CJ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
