[gentoo-user] Unicode Fonts in xfce4-terminal
Hi all, I have been fiddling on and off for a few months now trying to get Unicode font display in Terminal, which per the Gentoo Unicode docs as well as its own, supports UTF-8 character sets. However, special characters are not displayed. The font in use is DejaVu Sans Mono, which ought to support simple accented characters and other Unicode glyphs. The results of `locale` are as follows: t...@saya ~ $ locale LANG=en_US.utf8 LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 LC_NUMERIC=en_US.utf8 LC_TIME=en_US.utf8 LC_COLLATE=C LC_MONETARY=en_US.utf8 LC_MESSAGES=en_US.utf8 LC_PAPER=en_US.utf8 LC_NAME=en_US.utf8 LC_ADDRESS=en_US.utf8 LC_TELEPHONE=en_US.utf8 LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.utf8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=en_US.utf8 LC_ALL= Any ideas what I'm doing wrong? Thanks! -Andy
Re: [gentoo-user] Unicode Fonts in xfce4-terminal
On 07/12/2010 11:51 AM, Andy Wilkinson wrote: Hi all, I have been fiddling on and off for a few months now trying to get Unicode font display in Terminal, which per the Gentoo Unicode docs as well as its own, supports UTF-8 character sets. However, special characters are not displayed. The font in use is DejaVu Sans Mono, which ought to support simple accented characters and other Unicode glyphs. The results of `locale` are as follows: t...@saya ~ $ locale LANG=en_US.utf8 LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 LC_NUMERIC=en_US.utf8 LC_TIME=en_US.utf8 LC_COLLATE=C LC_MONETARY=en_US.utf8 LC_MESSAGES=en_US.utf8 LC_PAPER=en_US.utf8 LC_NAME=en_US.utf8 LC_ADDRESS=en_US.utf8 LC_TELEPHONE=en_US.utf8 LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.utf8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=en_US.utf8 LC_ALL= Any ideas what I'm doing wrong? Thanks! Try en_US.UTF-8 instead.
Re: [gentoo-user] Unicode Fonts in xfce4-terminal
On 07/12/2010 12:09 PM, Bill Longman wrote: On 07/12/2010 11:51 AM, Andy Wilkinson wrote: Hi all, I have been fiddling on and off for a few months now trying to get Unicode font display in Terminal, which per the Gentoo Unicode docs as well as its own, supports UTF-8 character sets. However, special characters are not displayed. The font in use is DejaVu Sans Mono, which ought to support simple accented characters and other Unicode glyphs. The results of `locale` are as follows: t...@saya ~ $ locale LANG=en_US.utf8 LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 LC_NUMERIC=en_US.utf8 LC_TIME=en_US.utf8 LC_COLLATE=C LC_MONETARY=en_US.utf8 LC_MESSAGES=en_US.utf8 LC_PAPER=en_US.utf8 LC_NAME=en_US.utf8 LC_ADDRESS=en_US.utf8 LC_TELEPHONE=en_US.utf8 LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.utf8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=en_US.utf8 LC_ALL= Any ideas what I'm doing wrong? Thanks! Try en_US.UTF-8 instead. That did it. Thanks! I am confused, though. Why am I setting LANG, etc, to en_US.UTF-8 when locale -a says en_US.utf8? For now I am happy that it works. Thanks again. -Andy
Re: [gentoo-user] Unicode Fonts in xfce4-terminal
On 07/12/2010 01:38 PM, Andy Wilkinson wrote: On 07/12/2010 12:09 PM, Bill Longman wrote: Try en_US.UTF-8 instead. That did it. Thanks! I am confused, though. Why am I setting LANG, etc, to en_US.UTF-8 when locale -a says en_US.utf8? That's probably what the kernel thinks. If you look at the NLS stuff in the kernel, it uses utf8 instead of the usual UTF-8 syntax, which, according to the never-incorrect archives on Wikipedia, states is the official name. I might be all wet, but that's the only place that I'm familiar with that uses utf8. -- Bill Lost a character set, has he? How embarassing. How embarassing.
Re: [gentoo-user] Unicode Fonts in xfce4-terminal
On Monday 12 July 2010 21:58:35 Bill Longman wrote: On 07/12/2010 01:38 PM, Andy Wilkinson wrote: On 07/12/2010 12:09 PM, Bill Longman wrote: Try en_US.UTF-8 instead. That did it. Thanks! I am confused, though. Why am I setting LANG, etc, to en_US.UTF-8 when locale -a says en_US.utf8? Because the /etc/logale.gen file tells us: # Where locale is a locale located in /usr/share/i18n/locales/ and # where charmap is a charmap located in /usr/share/i18n/charmaps/. and in /usr/share/i18n/charmaps/ you will find: UTF-8.gz The next comment says: # For the default list of supported combinations, see the file: # /usr/share/i18n/SUPPORTED which shows: en_US.UTF-8 That's probably what the kernel thinks. If you look at the NLS stuff in the kernel, it uses utf8 instead of the usual UTF-8 syntax, which, according to the never-incorrect archives on Wikipedia, states is the official name. I might be all wet, but that's the only place that I'm familiar with that uses utf8. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Unicode Fonts in xfce4-terminal
On 07/12/2010 01:38 PM, Andy Wilkinson wrote: For now I am happy that it works. Thanks again. -Andy For what it's worth, Andy, here's my setup: /etc/locale.gen has: en_US ISO-8859-1 en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8 el_GR.UTF-8 UTF-8 el_GR ISO-8859-7 and in /etc/env.d/02locale I have: LANG=en_US.UTF-8 And it all just works. I have the default codepage/NLS set to utf8 in my kernels, too, but I don't create files with Greek names. Not yet, anyway, and I really don't plan on it. Switching keyboard layouts is hard enough in the editor. Ever try to run λσ -λ in bash?
[gentoo-user] Unicode fonts
Does anyone know of a good all-round font to use for a unicode console? Ideally, I want to be able to display mostly European languages (though, if there is a font out there that can deal with Asian languages too, that would be great ;-) -- A -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Unicode fonts
On Friday 22 December 2006 19:40, A. Khattri wrote: Does anyone know of a good all-round font to use for a unicode console? Ideally, I want to be able to display mostly European languages (though, if there is a font out there that can deal with Asian languages too, that would be great ;-) Terminus has all the characters I need: http://www.is-vn.bg/hamster/jimmy-en.html Terminus Font - a clean fixed width font source: terminus-font-4.20.tar.gz (198KB) Terminus Font is designed for long (8 and more hours per day) work with computers. Version 4.16 contains 690 characters, covering code pages ISO8859-1/2/5/9/13/15/16, IBM-437/852/855/866, KOI8-R/U/E/F, Windows-1250/1251/1252/1254/1257, Paratype-PT154/PT254, Bulgarian-MIK, Macintosh-Ukrainian, Esperanto and many others (a total of about 110 language sets). Also included are the IBM VGA, vt100 and xterm pseudographic characters. The sizes present are 6x12, 8x14, 8x16, 10x20, 12x24, 14x28 and 16x32. The styles are normal and bold (except for 6x12), plus EGA/VGA-bold for 8x14 and 8x16. And it's available in portage: emerge -av media-fonts/terminus-font I've heard that the Microsoft Arial Unicode fonts have nearly all characters, but I don't know if they can be used in the console (probably not). -- /PA -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
