On 22.08.21 05:33, . wrote:
  > This link had some good info:
  >
  >
https://askubuntu.com/questions/161652/how-to-change-the-default-font-size-of-xterm
  >
  >
  > I set up a .Xresources file and used "xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources"
to
  > activate it.  Here's my .Xresources file:
  >
  > > xterm*faceName: DejaVu Sans Mono
  > > xterm*faceSize: 16
  >
  > As far as I know, the DejaVu fonts are utf-8 compliant.  (But I
may be
  > wrong.)

 
  Holey Moley! That displays not only apostrophes, but even an image
of  an open book, and a square-face robot head. And that fontsize is
  certainly big enough. :-)
 
 
  Many thanks. That's a lot easier than futzing with a mystery mix
  of undocumented font commands, and superbly successful.
 
 
  Erik