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Date:      Mon, 26 Jun 2006 10:40:04 -0500
From:      "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@over-yonder.net>
To:        "J.R. Oldroyd" <fbsd@opal.com>
Cc:        Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Thomas Dickey <dickey@radix.net>
Subject:   Re: Unicode (was Re: Updating ncurses in base)
Message-ID:  <20060626154004.GB74292@over-yonder.net>
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On Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 10:35:59AM -0400 I heard the voice of
J.R. Oldroyd, and lo! it spake thus:
> 
> I have:
> 	unset LANG
> 	LC_COLLATE=POSIX
> 	LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8

Doing this (even just LC_CTYPE) gives me the same problem as just
setting LANG; those combined characters aren't combined.


> In .Xdefaults:
> 	xterm*vt100.font:     -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--18-120-100-100-c-90-iso10646-1
> 	xterm*vt100.utf8Fonts.font:     -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--18-120-100-100-c-90-iso10646-1

I actually use
-misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso10646-1,
which doesn't have all the chars (the Ethiopian shows up as boxes),
but it's about the only semicondensed font I can find that works.
Normal width is just WAY too wide for my eye.  I do wish I could find
a better semicondensed, though...


> Of course, to get to use this usefully for things like email, you'll
> need to get ncurses and xterm working and then also a mailer and an
> editor.  Mutt and nvi work fine in UTF-8 for me.

Fortunately, those parts seem to work (in this quick tests I've done)
:)


-- 
Matthew Fuller     (MF4839)   |  fullermd@over-yonder.net
Systems/Network Administrator |  http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/
           On the Internet, nobody can hear you scream.



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