Chris Jones wrote:

> How should I set up my terminal - xterm - and what might be a 
> good unicode fixed font that could make the experience more
> true to life?

The Debian package xfonts-efont-unicode has very wide character
coverage (incl. Chinese/Japanese). For tips on how to set it up,
google my page "Configuring xterm for UTF-8".

> Another thing is that I would like to be able to display all
> the glyphs of a given font so I can tell at a glance what
> scripts are covered.

I use xfd:

xfd -fn '-efont-biwidth-medium-r-*-*-16-*-*-*-*-*-iso10646-*'

> xfd from the x11-utils package is fine, but it does not appear 
> to support Truetype fonts.

The efonts aren't Truetype. You get the oldfashioned xterm "look &
feel".


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