Re: Unicode recommendations in a terminal - Please advise.
On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 09:22:02AM EDT, Jochen Schulz wrote:
> Chris Jones:
> >
> > 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?
>
> I am using xfce4-terminal (modern but lightweight Gtk+ application) and
> Deja Vu Mono and all my foreign spam is rendered nicely in mutt. :) I
> think you just have to install font packages for cyrillic, chinese etc.
> and xfce4-terminal picks them up automatically.
Is xfce4-terminal fontconfig-aware - so as to be able to switch to other
fonts automatically?
CJ
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