Bug#458432: xterm does not display Unicode glyphs beyond \uFFFF

2008-01-02 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Tue, Jan 01, 2008 at 07:00:17PM +0100, Dr. Markus Waldeck wrote: I might have noticed this earlier, but was unfamiliar with fonts using codes past 0x. The oldest known script is sumerian cuneiform. I searched for free fonts and found George Douros fonts which were included in

Bug#458432: xterm does not display Unicode glyphs beyond \uFFFF

2008-01-01 Thread Dr. Markus Waldeck
I might have noticed this earlier, but was unfamiliar with fonts using codes past 0x. The oldest known script is sumerian cuneiform. I searched for free fonts and found George Douros fonts which were included in Debian after an wnpp. Fortunately the fonts use Unicode encoding which I

Bug#458432: xterm does not display Unicode glyphs beyond \uFFFF

2007-12-31 Thread Dr. Markus Waldeck
Package: xterm Version: 229-1 Severity: normal I tested the fonts in the package ttf-ancient-fonts. The work fine with openoffice and eclipse. But if I start an xterm with -fa Akkadian only glyphs below \u are displayed. Is this a limitation in xterm? -- Der GMX SmartSurfer hilft bis zu

Bug#458432: xterm does not display Unicode glyphs beyond \uFFFF

2007-12-31 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Mon, Dec 31, 2007 at 11:40:08AM +0100, Dr. Markus Waldeck wrote: Package: xterm Version: 229-1 Severity: normal I tested the fonts in the package ttf-ancient-fonts. The work fine with openoffice and eclipse. But if I start an xterm with -fa Akkadian only glyphs below \u are

Bug#458432: xterm does not display Unicode glyphs beyond \uFFFF

2007-12-31 Thread Dr. Markus Waldeck
yes. TrueType fonts might not have this limitation, but bitmap fonts have only the XDrawString16 interface to write characters. xterm is translating codes outside 0-0x to the replacement character. (I should investigate this further - thanks for the reminder) Thank you for the answer!

Bug#458432: xterm does not display Unicode glyphs beyond \uFFFF

2007-12-31 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Mon, Dec 31, 2007 at 05:10:08PM +0100, Dr. Markus Waldeck wrote: yes. TrueType fonts might not have this limitation, but bitmap fonts have only the XDrawString16 interface to write characters. xterm is translating codes outside 0-0x to the replacement character. (I should