Re: [PLUG] UTF-8, Virtual Consoles, and Alpine

2016-07-30 Thread Paul DeStefano
Hello Rich & PLUG, I'm not sure if this topic was completed to Rich's satisfaction, so let me add something. On Tuesday, 26 July 2016, Rich Shepard wrote: My virtual terminals use urxvt and correctly display UTF-8 text encoding as demonstrated by viewing the UTF-8-demo.txt file. My MUA is

Re: [PLUG] UTF-8, Virtual Consoles, and Alpine

2016-07-26 Thread Paul Heinlein
On Tue, 26 Jul 2016, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Tue, 26 Jul 2016, Michael Rasmussen wrote: > >> A text console still has font choices. Your system documents how. > > Michael, > > That's very true. And all my consoles and virtual terminals properly > display UTF-8 ... except some languages in

Re: [PLUG] UTF-8, Virtual Consoles, and Alpine

2016-07-26 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 26 Jul 2016, Michael Rasmussen wrote: > A text console still has font choices. > Your system documents how. Michael, That's very true. And all my consoles and virtual terminals properly display UTF-8 ... except some languages in Alpine. Rich

Re: [PLUG] UTF-8, Virtual Consoles, and Alpine

2016-07-26 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 26 Jul 2016, John Jason Jordan wrote: > Doesn't the terminal use a font for display purposes? It's probably a > monospaced font but, I thought everything ultimately used some font or > another. John, Yes it's using the 10x20 monospaced, san-serif font. > Or do you mean that X isn't

Re: [PLUG] UTF-8, Virtual Consoles, and Alpine

2016-07-26 Thread Michael Rasmussen
On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 09:56:30AM -0700, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Tue, 26 Jul 2016, John Jason Jordan wrote: > > > Fonts? Which are set as the display fonts for the various programs? > > John, > >Standard 10x20. This is a non-GUI application. A text console still has font choices. Your

Re: [PLUG] UTF-8, Virtual Consoles, and Alpine

2016-07-26 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Tue, 26 Jul 2016 09:56:30 -0700 (PDT) Rich Shepard dijo: >On Tue, 26 Jul 2016, John Jason Jordan wrote: >> Fonts? Which are set as the display fonts for the various programs? > Standard 10x20. This is a non-GUI application. Doesn't the terminal use a font for

Re: [PLUG] UTF-8, Virtual Consoles, and Alpine

2016-07-26 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 26 Jul 2016, John Jason Jordan wrote: > Fonts? Which are set as the display fonts for the various programs? John, Standard 10x20. This is a non-GUI application. > What happens if you copy and paste some Hebrew ?? text into something > else, e.g., Firefox, Lyx, etc.? Not

Re: [PLUG] UTF-8, Virtual Consoles, and Alpine

2016-07-26 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Tue, 26 Jul 2016 08:04:23 -0700 (PDT) Rich Shepard dijo: >My virtual terminals use urxvt and correctly display UTF-8 text encoding >as demonstrated by viewing the UTF-8-demo.txt file. My MUA is alpine >and invoked in a urxvt terminal. But, not all foreign languages

[PLUG] UTF-8, Virtual Consoles, and Alpine

2016-07-26 Thread Rich Shepard
These are not burning questions but arise out of curiosity. My virtual terminals use urxvt and correctly display UTF-8 text encoding as demonstrated by viewing the UTF-8-demo.txt file. My MUA is alpine and invoked in a urxvt terminal. But, not all foreign languages are displayed; for