On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 03:00:11AM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Hi, > > By doing this (putting a mail-like > in front of U+2218), you're making > vim output U+2218 in bold font (because the mail syntax expresses a > color that result into bold font in your vim configuration). Then xterm > has to draw a bold U+2218. The problem is that for this you need a bold > font that holds U+2218, and it seems your system doesn't have any (just > like mine, actually), so xterm can't do much.
From the context, it sounds as if the font contains other glyphs that work. I might be able to improve it by making xterm check if the normal/bold fonts contain a different number of glyphs, and in that case add some checks to use the normal glyph when the bold one is missing. -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net
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