On Tue, Jan 01, 2008 at 07:00:17PM +0100, Dr. Markus Waldeck wrote: > > I might have noticed this earlier, but was unfamiliar > > with fonts using codes past 0xffff. > > The oldest known script is sumerian cuneiform. > I searched for free fonts and found George Douros fonts > which were included in Debian after an wnpp. > > Fortunately the fonts use Unicode encoding > which I prefer since I studied in Japan. > According to wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode_cuneiform) > sumerian cuneiform are included since Unicode 5.0. > > > but TrueType fonts use a different interface, which apparently > > does not have the same limitation (that's how xfd is able to display > > the font). > > Is it possibe to use this functionality in xterm? That's what you're using if you type xterm -fa Akkadian bitmap fonts use a different (-fn) option. However, xterm is translating all of the above-0xffff values to the replacement character as it reads them. To change this, I'll have to undo that - but replace the check with several other changes in the program to make bitmap fonts still work. (I didn't do that this week since I was closing out changes for #230). -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net
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