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Date:      Fri, 06 Aug 2010 19:53:35 +0400
From:      Anonymous <swell.k@gmail.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Good Terminal for X?
Message-ID:  <86d3tveo00.fsf@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20100806153733.GB90463@libertas.local.camdensoftware.com> (Chip Camden's message of "Fri, 6 Aug 2010 08:37:33 -0700")
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Chip Camden <sterling@camdensoftware.com> writes:

> Quoth Roland Smith on Friday, 06 August 2010:
>> On Fri, Aug 06, 2010 at 03:12:11AM -0500, Depo Catcher wrote:
>> > 
>> > I use Icewm, so don't want to install all that kde/gnome 
>> > libs/dependencies and such to get konsole or gnome-console (but both are 
>> > nice)
>> > 
>> > xterm does display some things correctly (like sysinstall type command 
>> > line GUIs).
>> 
>> Try x11/rxvt-unicode. It doesn't require Gnome nor KDE libraries, and it does
>> handle unicode well. It's a lot lighter than xterm. And it has transparancy or
>> backgrounds if you like that.
>
> On the subject of unicode, can anyone recommend a good terminal font that
> includes all (or most) unicode characters?

If I'm not mistaken unicode coverage can be achieved by combining several
fonts using fontconfig[1]. The good start would be to combine DejaVu Sans Mono
with some CJK font of your choice.

[1] This is where xterm sucks, it can only use normal + double-width font.



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