First of all, xterm does not start in unicode mode by default, start it with -u8 option or use wrapper uxterm.
Second, you need to specify correct font codepage for your font. I also use Terminus. What you want to add is this to .Xdefaults: XTerm*utf8: 1 XTerm*font: -*-terminus-medium-*-*-*-18-*-*-*-*-*-iso10646-* Now you can start xterm and it will work as expected. More here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Character_Set -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to xterm in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1125207 Title: xterm cannot handle unicode when default font is changed Status in “xterm” package in Ubuntu: Invalid Bug description: I have been trying to change my font to `Terminus` (it is broken for most other fonts as well) using either something like: xterm*font : -*-terminus-*-*-*-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-*-* or: xterm*font : xft:Terminus:pixelsize=12 and most unicode characters seem broken. I have been testing this using: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/examples/UTF-8-demo.txt There is no such problem with gnome-terminal or urxvt. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xterm/+bug/1125207/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
