Unicode (was Re: Updating ncurses in base)

[Thomas Dickey]

On Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 02:05:41PM +0200, Alexander Leidinger wrote:
> 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.

(perhaps you mean de_DE.ISO8859-15 - 8849 refers to something else). 

ok - but bear in mind that there are different fonts used for uxterm.

Generally xterm (not in UTF-8 mode) uses the ISO-8859-x fonts,
and uxterm uses the ISO-10646-x fonts.  That's for the bitmap fonts
of course.  Aside from users setting resoures that inadvertantly pick up
one when the other is meant, I don't recall problems with those.

For TrueType - that's different (I use configurations that other people
setup).  I understand from observation and reading reports that if
they're not setup properly, in some cases their sizes do not work
properly.

-- 
Thomas E. Dickey
http://invisible-island.net
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