Package: xterm Version: 256-1 Severity: normal
I am japanophile (shinnichi), who is trying to learn Japanese language. Therefore I have configured font substitution and virtual fonts (Sans, Serif and Monospace) of my fontconfig this way: 1. When trying to find glyph for certain character, try Bitstream Vera and its clones and derivatives first, especially DejaVu fonts. 2. If that fails, try Japanese fonts next (IPA-fonts, VL-fonts etc.) 3. And so on. In fact, I have released those configs in WWW: http://iki.fi/juhtolv/configs/fontconfig/ I also have released my X-resources in WWW: http://iki.fi/juhtolv/configs/X/dot.Xresources.bz2 I also have this line in my shell configs: export PANGO_LANGUAGE="fi;en;ja" Unfortunately xterm do not support font substitution at all. I gave this command: xterm -fa 'Monospace' -fs 12 Then in that xterm window I gave this command: lynx 'http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A4%E3%83%A9%E3%82%AF' All Japanese characters look like like boxes. It is easy to see, how it fails: When some virtual font is called, it only finds the first real font accepted for that virtual font and that's all. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers stable APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (500, 'testing-proposed-updates'), (500, 'proposed-updates'), (101, 'testing'), (99, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-trunk-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=fi_FI.utf8, LC_CTYPE=fi_FI.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages xterm depends on: ii libc6 2.10.2-6 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii libfontconfig1 2.8.0-2 generic font configuration library ii libice6 2:1.0.6-1 X11 Inter-Client Exchange library ii libncurses5 5.7+20100313-2 shared libraries for terminal hand ii libutempter0 1.1.5-2 A privileged helper for utmp/wtmp ii libx11-6 2:1.3.3-3 X11 client-side library ii libxaw7 2:1.0.7-1 X11 Athena Widget library ii libxft2 2.1.14-2 FreeType-based font drawing librar ii libxmu6 2:1.0.5-1 X11 miscellaneous utility library ii libxt6 1:1.0.7-1 X11 toolkit intrinsics library ii xbitmaps 1.1.0-1 Base X bitmaps Versions of packages xterm recommends: ii x11-utils 7.5+3 X11 utilities ii xutils 1:7.5+5 X Window System utility programs m Versions of packages xterm suggests: pn xfonts-cyrillic <none> (no description available) -- no debconf information -- Juhapekka "naula" Tolvanen * http colon slash slash iki dot fi slash juhtolv "Quidquid Latine dictum sit altum videtur." -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-x-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100422215523.ga31...@juhtolv.dyndns.org