tag 279245 + upstream severity 279245 wishlist retitle 279245 xfonts-base: the 9x15 font should have wide-character coverage so xterm doesn't have to kludge in UTF-8 mode reassign 279245 xfonts-base thanks On Mon, Nov 01, 2004 at 12:49:59PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > xterm's app-defaults make it use a 9x15 font for Large font in non-8tf-8 > mode, but in utf-8 it uses a large (and IMHO uglier) 9x18 font. > > I suspect that this is because > -misc-fixed-medium-*-*-*-15-*-*-*-*-*-iso10646-* has no corresponding > wide character font, so if it is used, display of CJK and etc characters > doesn't work. And probably the 9x15 is retained for non-utf because many > users would scream if it were changed. > > But still this is a strange inconsistency between uxterm and xterm. > > (Perhaps the best fix is getting a full version of the > -misc-fixed-medium-*-*-*-15-*-*-*-*-*-iso10646-* font. :-) On Sun, Nov 21, 2004 at 09:53:34AM -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote: > > (Perhaps the best fix is getting a full version of the > > -misc-fixed-medium-*-*-*-15-*-*-*-*-*-iso10646-* font. :-) > > Probably - but then it is not an xterm bug. I agree with both of you. Getting better glyph coverage in 9x15 is really the only good way forward. I am reassigning this as a wishlist bug to xfonts-base. -- G. Branden Robinson | If you wish to strive for peace of Debian GNU/Linux | soul, then believe; if you wish to branden@debian.org | be a devotee of truth, then http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | inquire. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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