After having trouble displaying apostrophe and hyphen in recent posts on several lists, I've found that it is not "xterm -u8" or uxterm which are intrinsically deficient, but rather it is my "-fn 10x20" option which is selecting a font size which presumably lacks an adequate utf8 character set. I.e., without the fontsize option, the problem characters display OK.
The reason for that option is that even selecting "Huge" at Ctrl-Right_Click gives an unreadably small font size. Does anyone know of a substantial fontsize with a more complete utf8 character set, or a howto on exploring installed X11 fonts and their size and unicode characteristics? Here, fc-list lists many fonts, without any useful size clues, and "fc-match utf8" shows only one font: DejaVuSansttf: "DejaVu Sans" "Book" And "xlsfonts | grep utf8" returns nothing. And "xset q" shows: Font Path: /usr/share/fonts/X11/misc,/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/:unscaled,/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/:unscaled,/usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1,/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi,/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi,built-ins Any thoughts on whether: console-setup - console font and keymap setup program might help? Of the squillion font packages available, would there be mileage in installing perhaps the first of: $ apt-cache search font | grep font | grep unicode | more fonts-cmu - sets the computer modern unicode fonts fonts-georgewilliams - Free unicode TrueType fonts by George Williams fonts-junicode - Unicode font for medievalists (Latin, IPA and Runic) fonts-lg-aboriginal - unicode fonts for North-American Aboriginal languages fonts-oflb-euterpe - unicode musical font fonts-senamirmir-washra - collection of unicode fonts for the Ethiopic script xfonts-efont-unicode - /efont/ Unicode fonts for X which cover various scripts xfonts-efont-unicode-ib - /efont/ Unicode fonts for X (italic and bold But what then? Any firm ground in this swamp would help a lot while I work on building taller stilts. Google hits thus far furnish little or no additional stuff to check or implement. Erik
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