From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 26 15:40:08 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D88C16A400 for ; Mon, 26 Jun 2006 15:40:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fullermd@over-yonder.net) Received: from mail.localelinks.com (web.localelinks.com [64.39.75.54]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 95B2845409 for ; Mon, 26 Jun 2006 15:40:06 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from fullermd@over-yonder.net) Received: from draco.over-yonder.net (adsl-072-148-013-213.sip.jan.bellsouth.net [72.148.13.213]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.localelinks.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 954A1261; Mon, 26 Jun 2006 10:40:05 -0500 (CDT) Received: by draco.over-yonder.net (Postfix, from userid 100) id B8C8161C2B; Mon, 26 Jun 2006 10:40:04 -0500 (CDT) Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 10:40:04 -0500 From: "Matthew D. Fuller" To: "J.R. Oldroyd" Message-ID: <20060626154004.GB74292@over-yonder.net> References: <6eb82e0606091906j7d9f69aarcf1f9738c7565677@mail.gmail.com> <20060625221640.GI48766@linwhf.opal.com> <20060626014939.GA74292@over-yonder.net> <20060626115840.vrmox3wo0gg08gog@netchild.homeip.net> <20060626102724.GA17962@saltmine.radix.net> <20060626125625.s899sqa99wcg8ssw@netchild.homeip.net> <20060626111100.GA1808@saltmine.radix.net> <20060626140541.y4vreq8vpcs804sk@netchild.homeip.net> <20060626122313.GA988@saltmine.radix.net> <20060626143559.GJ48766@linwhf.opal.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060626143559.GJ48766@linwhf.opal.com> X-Editor: vi X-OS: FreeBSD User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11-fullermd.3 Cc: Alexander Leidinger , freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Thomas Dickey Subject: Re: Unicode (was Re: Updating ncurses in base) X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 15:40:08 -0000 On Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 10:35:59AM -0400 I heard the voice of J.R. Oldroyd, and lo! it spake thus: > > I have: > unset LANG > LC_COLLATE=POSIX > LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 Doing this (even just LC_CTYPE) gives me the same problem as just setting LANG; those combined characters aren't combined. > In .Xdefaults: > xterm*vt100.font: -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--18-120-100-100-c-90-iso10646-1 > xterm*vt100.utf8Fonts.font: -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--18-120-100-100-c-90-iso10646-1 I actually use -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso10646-1, which doesn't have all the chars (the Ethiopian shows up as boxes), but it's about the only semicondensed font I can find that works. Normal width is just WAY too wide for my eye. I do wish I could find a better semicondensed, though... > Of course, to get to use this usefully for things like email, you'll > need to get ncurses and xterm working and then also a mailer and an > editor. Mutt and nvi work fine in UTF-8 for me. Fortunately, those parts seem to work (in this quick tests I've done) :) -- Matthew Fuller (MF4839) | fullermd@over-yonder.net Systems/Network Administrator | http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/ On the Internet, nobody can hear you scream.