On Sat, 1 Aug 2009, KMiller wrote:
I'm trying to set up xterm to handle output from mysql queries that contains cyrillic. I had success when I 1) did not specify a font in .Xdefaults 2) selected UTF-8 under VT FONTS Under those conditions, the cyrillic characters print and all is good. But, no matter what I do in .xDefaults, I can not enable xterm to duplicate that behaviour by default. I always have to manually do the above steps. Any ideas/advice on making this the default?
well... (not having that particular configuration at hand, but able to explain): selecting UTF-8 under the VT Fonts tells xterm to do two things: a) switch the character-encoding from ISO-8859-1 (or whatever) to UTF-8, which corresponds to the utf8 resource setting. b) select the font from (unless overridden) the utf8Fonts resources. Having a resource like "*font:fixed" would override that, due to the wildcard. So it might be as simple as setting the utf8 resource in .Xdefaults: *utf8: 2 -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/