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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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