Bug#578825: No Terminal emulator on debian that does everything I want... ;|
Hi!
I'm a longterm xterm user and very much prefer its faithful terminal
emulation in conjunction with screen and an old vt510 digital terminal.
When on X11, with 256 colour support emacs code highlighting is more
easy on my eyes.
I think however that letters in a foreign script look a lot better
than boxes, even though I can't read the language. Currently I have
the following options (which explains why Bugs 493481 and 578825 are
relevant):
- rxvt-unicode, which supports the font substitution mechanism and
will display every glyph that is available in some truetype font I
have installed.
Unfortunately, rxvt-unicode does not support 256 colours.
(Also, urxvt uses quite a lot of virtual memory, compared to
xterm.)
- xterm with plain old XLFD bitmapped fonts, which will also display
every glyph in my X11 core fonts.
Unfortunately I've gotten used to antialiased fonts, now that I
exclusively use LCDs. (I didn't see the point of antialiased fonts
on a CRT with its "natural antialising" :) )
- xterm with xft fonts for single and double width characters
configured separately. It's hard to find a single font that
supports every single width character I see on the net *and*
another one that supports all the (mainly) CJK fonts. unifont is a
viable fallback, but it's not pretty. This is what I use at the
moment, and occasionally I switch off truetype fonts on the fly, in
order to see what's behind those boxes.
Plain rxvt is not an option because of it's complete lack of unicode
support and I found other terminal emulators very lacking in the
terminal emulation part of their feature set...
So, this is just to say that "fixing" either bug 493481 or bug 578825
would make this user happy ;)
Kind regards
Friedel
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Friedrich Delgado <friedel@nomaden.org>
TauPan on Ircnet and Freenode ;)
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