Where are utf8-capable fonts?

[Thomas Dickey]

On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 12:04:57AM -0700, Thomas Mueller wrote:
> I looked in my fonts directories and /usr/ports/x11-fonts/ and couldn't find
> anything identifiable as utf8-capable.
> 
> What brings this up is all those annoying funny apostrophes that show as
> 
> i???\200\231m currently running into problem when trying to ???\200\234make
> install???\200\235 qmail with the following options en
> 
> This is an example copied and pasted in an xterm from pkgsrc-users at netbsd.org
> emailing list, though the problem with those funny apostrophes not rendering
> properly is just as annoying with FreeBSD emailing lists.

:-)
 
> When I send email, I always use plain regular apostrophes (ASCII 39) and
> quotes (ASCII 34).

...and some programs "improve" your experience :-)
 
> I tried 
> ls -lR /usr/local/libX11/fonts/ | grep "utf"
> also for "UTF" and even "en_US"
> and got nothing.

xlsfonts | fgrep 10646

The shell script "uxterm" sets up xterm with a selection of the most useful/available fonts.

-- 
Thomas E. Dickey <dickey at invisible-island.net>
http://invisible-island.net
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