I had problems with font set to "Terminus:pixelsize=16:antialias=false:autohint=false".
Line drawing characters and all non-english characters were replaced with squares. There were some messages in this mailing list with suggestion to use Liberation Mono [1][2]. Liberation Mono looks ugly (for me) so I looked for proper solution. In fact there are no problems with Terminus. As README states "A lot of characters are available only under X11/ISO10646-1 (UTF+8/Unicode)." But instead of using "make install" I had to use "make install-pcf-646" so only ter-x*.pcf fonts are installed. This way unicode Terminus fonts are used and there are no missing characters. Is there any way to make Xft use "ter-x*.pcf" files without removing other ter-*.pcf files? Maybe that way we can return back to Terminus as default font. [1] http://lists.suckless.org/dev/1209/12519.html [2] http://lists.suckless.org/dev/1209/12515.html