Sun, 22 Aug 2021 15:48:15 +0930 - dva...@internode.on.net: > After having trouble displaying apostrophe and hyphen in recent > posts on several lists, I've found that it is not "xterm -u8" or > uxterm which are intrinsically deficient, but rather it is my "-fn > 10x20" option which is selecting a font size which presumably > lacks an adequate utf8 character set. I.e., without the fontsize > option, the problem > characters display OK. > > The reason for that option is that even selecting "Huge" at > Ctrl-Right_Click gives an unreadably small font size. > Does anyone know of a substantial fontsize with a more complete utf8 > character set, or a howto on exploring installed X11 fonts and > their size and unicode characteristics? > Here, fc-list lists many fonts, without any useful size clues, and > "fc-match utf8" shows only one font: > DejaVuSansttf: "DejaVu Sans" "Book" > And "xlsfonts | grep utf8" returns nothing. > > And "xset q" shows: Font Path: > > /usr/share/fonts/X11/misc,/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/:unscaled,/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/:unscaled,/usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1,/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi,/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi,built-ins > > Any thoughts on whether: console-setup - console font and keymap > setup program might help? > > Of the squillion font packages available, would there be mileage in > installing perhaps the first of: > $ apt-cache search font | grep font | grep unicode | more > fonts-cmu - sets the computer modern unicode fonts > fonts-georgewilliams - Free unicode TrueType fonts by George Williams > fonts-junicode - Unicode font for medievalists (Latin, IPA and Runic) > fonts-lg-aboriginal - unicode fonts for North-American Aboriginal > languages > fonts-oflb-euterpe - unicode musical font > fonts-senamirmir-washra - collection of unicode fonts for the Ethiopic > script > xfonts-efont-unicode - /efont/ Unicode fonts for X which cover various > scripts > xfonts-efont-unicode-ib - /efont/ Unicode fonts for X (italic and bold > But what then? Any firm ground in this swamp would help a lot while > I work on building taller stilts. Google hits thus far furnish > little or no additional stuff to check or implement. > > Erik >
Hi Erik I have the `fonts-dejavu` package installed (not ttf-dejavu) with a very large Unicode character set; then running: ~~~ xterm -fn "Dejavu Sans" -fs 12 ~~~ or ~~~ xterm -fn "Dejavu Sans Mono" -fs 12 ~~~ it seems there are not troubles displaying any character (i.e. `~-_àèù|\|¦ etc....) Regards al3xu5 -- Say NO to copyright, patents, trademarks and industrial design restrictions! ____________________________________________________________________________ Public GPG/PGP key: 8FC2 3121 2803 86E9 F7D8 B624 DA50 835B 2624 A36B
pgpSVohOdxHyj.pgp
Description: Firma digitale OpenPGP
_______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng