xterm - truetype fonts and missing underscore

[Tony Maher]

On 08/25/11 01:27, Volodymyr Kostyrko wrote:
> 24.08.2011 12:01, Tony Maher wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> recently (not sure exactly when) my xterms no longer showed the
>> underscore character.
>> In my .Xresources I had (and have had this setting for years):
>>
>> XTerm*faceName: Monospace
>> XTerm*faceSize: 10
>>
>> I noticed when experimenting and modifying values that for one choice
>> the bottom part of letters like 'g' was missing.
>> So changed faceSize to 11 and all is good.
>>
>> In gnome-terminal with Monospace/10 font underscores showed up fine
>> (and was ok in gnome font selector). So it appears to be xterm specific.
>>
>> Has anyone else experienced this?
>
> +1 from me
>
> http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/freetype/2011-08/msg00020.html

Ok. Thanks for the link.

cheers
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Tony Maher                    email: tonymaher at optusnet.com.au