Cyrillic font for xterm/urxvt

[Vladimir Kondratyev]

On 2020-11-19 13:32, Vladimir Kondratyev wrote:
> On 2020-11-19 13:28, Matthias Apitz wrote:
>> El día jueves, noviembre 19, 2020 a las 01:12:32p. m. +0300, Vladimir
>> Kondratyev escribió:
>> 
>>> On 2020-11-19 09:05, Matthias Apitz wrote:
>>> > Hello,
>>> >
>>> > I'm German and I study Russian language. I'm switching with a lot of
>>> > xmodmap commands:
>>> >
>>> > $ cat Russian/.xmodmap-cyrillic
>>> > keycode 0x40 =  Mode_switch
>>> > ! Russian (mapping attempts phonetic proximity)
>>> > keysym a = a A Cyrillic_a  Cyrillic_A
>>> > keysym b = b B Cyrillic_be Cyrillic_BE
>>> > keysym c = c C Cyrillic_che Cyrillic_CHE
>>> > keysym d = d D Cyrillic_de Cyrillic_DE
>>> > ...
>>> >
>>> > my German keyboard layout (QWERTZ) with the Win-key to get the Russian
>>> > UTF-8 chars, like абсдефг .... это всё хорошо. What I'd like to have is
>>> > a font for urxvt where the glyphs are more similar to the normal
>>> > Russian
>>> > printing layout, for example where the Russian 'т' looks more like the
>>> > Enlish 'm'
>>> > Is this clear what I mean? Any ideas for a good font name?
>>> 
>>> It is not clear what you mean. 'т' looks more like the English 'm' in
>>> handwritten Russian, so you can choose any italic font.
>>> 
>> 
>> I mean a font where the 'т' looks like as in this:
>> http://www.unixarea.de/cyrillic.jpg
>> What would be an exact font name for urxvt -fn "xxxxx" ?
> 
> urxvt -fn "xft:Bitstream Vera Sans Mono:pixelsize=24:style=Oblique"
> 

Ouch. It is appeared that "Bitstream Vera Sans Mono" do not have 
Cyrillic glyphs.
Sorry.

But that does not matter. just run fc-list, find any font with 
style:Italic,
and than check it for Cyrillic glyphs presence. Most of webfont should
be useable e.g.

  urxvt -fn "xft:Arial:pixelsize=24:style=Italic"



>> 
>> Thanks
>> 
>> 	matthias

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WBR
Vladimir Kondratyev