Re: Unicode recommendations in a terminal - Please advise.
On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 01:28:08PM EDT, Paul Scott wrote:
> Chris Jones wrote:
>>
>>> Chris Jones <cjns1989@gmail.com> writes:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Wondering if anyone has some multilingual experience with terminal-based
> (snip)
>
>> There was another reply recommending unicode-rxvt in this thread, so
>> I'll take a look as soon as time allows.
>>
>> Main reasons I not sure about switching are that I have done a bit of
>> 256-color customization that probably won't "just work" with urxvt, and
>> more importantly, xterm support via mailing lists & newsgroups is very
>> quick and to the point.
>
> uxterm ? It's in my Debian menu under terminal emulators.
I didn't read the fine print, but uxterm is only a short wrapper that
sets the locale if not UTF-8 and exec's xterm with the -u8 flag.
The issue here is whether xterm is fontconfig-aware and has the ability
to do what Andrei says urxvt does: gracefully switch to a different font
when the default font lacks a certain range of glyphs (unicode plane?).
Per ldd, on lenny, xterm is linked to libfontconfig - but all the same,
in my setup, font substitution is not happening.
:-(
Note that I know very little about fontconfig, so someone correct me if
I'm wrong.
CJ
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