Wondering if anyone has some multilingual experience with terminal-based applications such as mutt for mail, text-mode browsers - ELinks here... irc clients, etc. and would be able to provide some advice.
How should I set up my terminal - xterm - and what might be a good unicode fixed font that could make the experience more true to life? On top of English etc., the "Terminus" font that I currently use appears to render Cyrillic and Greek satisfactorily at least in mutt. Unfortunately it doesn't have the glyphs for much anything else. I tried the Deja Vu Sans Mono, and it has significantly more, mostly in the area of "symbols" - stuff like Wingdings, mostly. Not much good if you are trying to view English text with some embedded Chinese for instance. Another thing is that I would like to be able to display all the glyphs of a given font so I can tell at a glance what scripts are covered. xfd from the x11-utils package is fine, but it does not appear to support Truetype fonts. fontmatrix does it, but I would prefer something smaller. Before I try to write my own, I was wondering if s/o knew of a simple text-mode utility that just displays the glyphs as a matrix on the terminal..? Thanks, CJ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
