[2019-05-17 18:43] Paride Legovini <p...@ninthfloor.org>
> I tried with xterm and sakura, the Cyrillic string renders exactly as
> in stterm, with the correct character width and spacing.
I have found workaround. My regular locale is eo.utf-8, but many X
applications (stterm included) fail to start with following error:
XOpenIM failed. Could not open input devices.
so I start them with LC_ALL=C.UTF-8. Funny thing, I just tried to start
"LC_ALL=ru_RU.utf8 stterm -f Terminus", and it rendered cyrillic text
properly.
But I still believe, that different rendring on different utf-8 locales
is a bug. Can you re-do checks with LC_ALL=C.UTF-8?
> > Not sure, that it is relevant, but in xterm(1) I found following:
> >
> > The reason for this resource is to help with certain
> > quasi-automatically generated fonts (such as the ISO-10646-1 encoding
> > of Terminus) which have incorrect font-metrics.>
> > Maybe there are known issues with terminus font, and other terminal
> > emulators provide special care for it?
>
> Could be, I don't know. The font's homepage [0] says that:
>
> Version 4.47 contains 1326 characters, covers about 120 language
> sets and supports ISO8859-1/2/5/7/9/13/15/16 [...]
>
> and ISO5589-5 is Latin/Cyrillic, so I don't think there are
> auto-generated fonts. It also says that Terminus is a "fixed width
> bitmap font". On my system I have disabled the bitmap fonts: I have this
> symbolic link in place:
>
> /etc/fonts/conf.d/70-no-bitmaps.conf ->
> /usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/70-no-bitmaps.conf
No, I did no configuration in /etc/fonts/conf.d. I wasn't aware of it.
> so maybe even if I explicitly ask for Terminus the terminals lie to me,
> and another fallback font is actually used. Did you disable the bitmap
> fonts?
> Another question. You said xterm renders Terminus well. From how it
> looks, can you tell if it is actually Terminus or another font?
I did not checked that xterm(1) renders well:
$ xterm -f Terminus
did not work. I checked sakura(1) and terminology(1). If they are lying
to me, they do it very well -- I can't tell the difference.
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