Re: Unicode recommendations in a terminal - Please advise.
On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 10:02:38AM EDT, Tony Baldwin 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.
> late to the thread, and didn't ready other posts, but, have you tried
> urxvt or rxvt-unicode?
I'll give it a shot. But I'd rather stick with xterm. Not sure whether
there are any plans to make it fontconfig-aware.
CJ
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