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Re: Unicode recommendations in a terminal - Please advise.



On Sun,28.Jun.09, 00:43:58, Chris Jones wrote:
> Wondering if anyone has some multilingual experience with terminal-based
> applications such as mutt for mail, text-mode browsers - ELinks here...
> irc clients, etc. and would be able to provide some advice.
> 
> How should I set up my terminal - xterm - and what might be a good
> unicode fixed font that could make the experience more true to life? 

Though I don't use very special characters, I noticed that rxvt-unicode 
will display just about anything (and in Debian you do come across 
various scripts). AFAIU from the docs it dynamically loads the correct 
font if the default one (I use Terminus) won't be enough.

Regards,
Andrei
-- 
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
(Albert Einstein)

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