On Mon, Dec 31, 2007 at 11:40:08AM +0100, Dr. Markus Waldeck wrote: > > Package: xterm > Version: 229-1 > Severity: normal > > I tested the fonts in the package ttf-ancient-fonts. > The work fine with openoffice and eclipse. > > But if I start an xterm with "-fa Akkadian" only glyphs > below \uFFFF are displayed. > > Is this a limitation in xterm? yes. TrueType fonts might not have this limitation, but bitmap fonts have only the XDrawString16 interface to write characters. xterm is translating codes outside 0-0xffff to the replacement character. (I should investigate this further - thanks for the reminder) -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net
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