Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: putty
By default, pterm doesn't seem to pick a font which supports wide
characters (eg Japanese). As a test, start pterm,and type this:
zcat /usr/share/doc/groff-base/README.jp.gz | tcs -f jis | less
(assumes you have 'tcs' installed, also 'groff-base' and 'less', and that you
have a UTF-8 locale).
pterm will display dots where all the wide characters should be.
For contrast, run uxterm (in the xterm package) and run the same
command: all the wide characters should correctly display as Japanese
characters.
This is happening because pterm doesn't default to the 'wide' version of the
fixed font. You can force use of the wide font like this:
pterm -fn '-misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso10646-1'
(and if you run the test command under a pterm started like this you'll see
that the characters are drawn correctly)
but I think that it would be better if this was made to Just Work by
having the wide versions be the default.
** Affects: putty (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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pterm should default to a wide character font
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/134903
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