Sun, 22 Aug 2021 15:48:15 +0930 - dvalin@???:

> 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
>


Hi Erik

I have the `fonts-dejavu` package installed (not ttf-dejavu) with a
very large Unicode character set; then running:

~~~
xterm -fn "Dejavu Sans" -fs 12
~~~

or

~~~
xterm -fn "Dejavu Sans Mono" -fs 12
~~~

it seems there are not troubles displaying any character (i.e. `~-_àèù|\|¦
etc....)

Regards
al3xu5

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