On Fri, 24 Mar 2006, Dan Nicholson wrote:
You can even make xterm use
TrueType fonts through libXft. It's such an improvement.
Well, it would be if I could see it. So far I -think- I've persuaded it
to use DejaVu with
xterm -u8 -en UTF-8 -xrm 'faceName: Deja Vu Sans Mono'
which looks as if almost everything is displaying correctly with 'cat',
(might be missing one hebrew glyph, to judge from Kuhn's quickbrown.txt
from ucs-fonts), but it's so *tiny*. Both -fs and e.g. -xrm 'faceSize:
24' are ignored.
Oh, I'm sure that cyrillic (and greek, which isn't in that text) look
nicer with Alexander's -fa Monospace -fs 11 variant, but
- if I do that with LC_ALL=ru_RU.UTF8 I dislike the bolder and slightly
slanted font that I get (although the size is good), and anyway it
doesn't cover all the characters
- if I do that with LC_ALL=en_GB.UTF8 the results might as well be
gibberish - almost every LATIN1 character is rendered wrongly, and
almost no non-latin characters appear. I think this is because I have
ttf-arkpandora installed and it decides aerial is the best match.
So, I look forward to your definitive work on fonts ;)
Ken
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