Hi, So far, XTerm uses *-iso8859-1 fonts as default. Though the default settings have been good, I think it is not always good now or in future, because current XTerm supports UTF-8 mode and it can activate UTF-8 mode automatically.
I think it is a good idea that UTF-8 mode is invoked automatically in UTF-8 locales. However, if users have to configure fonts to use UTF-8 mode of XTerm, the merit of automatic UTF-8 mode decreases. This is in case not only for UTF-8 mode but also locale mode (which is implemented based on UTF-8 mode) which is recently integrated into CVS tree. I think there are two possibilities of solutions. The first is that simply using *-iso10646-1 fonts as defaults. This means that XTerm will use *-iso10646-1 fonts instead of *-iso8859-1 fonts when no font configuration is available. The second solution is to implement UTF-8-specific font configuration items, like "uFont", "uFont2", "uWideFont4", and so on. I think the second one is better, though the first one is simpler and not very harmful. However, I don't have enough time to work on these solutions. Any comments? --- Tomohiro KUBOTA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.debian.or.jp/~kubota/ "Introduction to I18N" http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/intro-i18n/ _______________________________________________ I18n mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/i18n
