On Aug 15 21:35:32, Christian Weisgerber wrote:
> Jan Stary <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > 4.6-current on a HP EliteBook 8530w. I cannot get xterm
> > to let me type some iso8859-2 (Czech) characters.
>
> xterm will only accept characters valid for the encoding it uses.
> By default, that encoding is ISO8859-1.
>
> > some letters show up correct and some don't. Namely, the acute'd letters
> > show up correct, and the check'd letters don't show up at all - does this
> > have any significance?
>
> The letters with acute happen to also exist in ISO8859-1. The ones
> with hacek don't.
>
> You want to run "xterm -en ISO8859-2".
I just did, via "XTerm*locale: ISO8859-2" in my ~/.Xresources.
Now I can type and display the ISO2 characters properly. Thanks!
> > xterm -fn -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--20-200-75-75-c-100-iso8859-2
>
> Don't. This only adds to the confusion because xterm will continue
> to think it uses ISO8859-1 but actually display -2 glyphs.
Indeed, specyfying -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--20-200-75-75-c-100-iso8859-2
confuses xterm - the checked characters don't appear at all. But the
same happens with -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--20-200-75-75-c-100-iso8859-1
(note the iso1).
So what is the right thing to do if I, say, want a bigger font?
Is there a way other than '-fn' to say that?
Thanks for your time
Jan
