Unicode (was Re: Updating ncurses in base)
Alexander Leidinger
Alexander at Leidinger.net
Mon Jun 26 12:09:12 UTC 2006
Quoting Thomas Dickey <dickey at radix.net> (from Mon, 26 Jun 2006
07:11:01 -0400):
> On Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 12:56:25PM +0200, Alexander Leidinger wrote:
>> >(xterm inherits its locale from the environment - as a cursory reading
>> >of uxterm would reveal -)
>>
>> In my case the environment consists of a gnome session started with
>> gdm, LANG set to de_DE.UTF-8 and LC_NUMMERIC set to C. Starting an
>> uxterm didn't satisfy me (AFAIR: ugly font rendering, too much spaces
>> between characters for all fonts I tried), starting a gnome terminal
>> did (sort of, IMHO it's too large, but I got around it). Both
>
> That sounds as if you overrode the font resources to use a proportional font,
> or attempted to use TrueType fonts without having them setup properly.
> (gnome uses separate configuration data for the latter).
I did use the same font as previously with xterm and LANG set to
de_DE.ISO8849-15. I have to look up the fontname at home.
Bye,
Alexander.
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