Bug#458432: xterm does not display Unicode glyphs beyond \uFFFF

To: Thomas Dickey <dickey@radix.net>, 458432@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Bug#458432: xterm does not display Unicode glyphs beyond \uFFFF
From: "Dr. Markus Waldeck" <waldeck@gmx.de>
Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2007 16:40:14 +0100
Message-id: <[🔎] 20071231154014.194240@gmx.net>
Reply-to: "Dr. Markus Waldeck" <waldeck@gmx.de>, 458432@bugs.debian.org
In-reply-to: <[🔎] 20071231152331.GA25767@saltmine.radix.net>
References: <9GqdW-7WF-9@gated-at.bofh.it> <[🔎] 20071231152331.GA25767@saltmine.radix.net>

> yes.  TrueType fonts might not have this limitation, but bitmap
> fonts have only the XDrawString16 interface to write characters.
> xterm is translating codes outside 0-0xffff to the replacement
> character.
> 
> (I should investigate this further - thanks for the reminder)

Thank you for the answer!

Unfortunately there is no XDrawString32 :-(

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