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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