From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 13 16:21:03 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6387916A404 for ; Thu, 13 Apr 2006 16:21:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from infofarmer@gmail.com) Received: from zproxy.gmail.com (zproxy.gmail.com [64.233.162.193]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79B3D43D7E for ; Thu, 13 Apr 2006 16:20:58 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from infofarmer@gmail.com) Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id l8so1686738nzf for ; Thu, 13 Apr 2006 09:20:57 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=mIdZGYZ10HnIlKzPVPV2TRSC5Hi68aBXFHLNcanheEOS/VA7rIiXI/rAxSHNZEc3MVm36ESQ+JFHH29HnSdb7ueZzTUUqL4Kz8NPKmY9yHcxEtGc4kFA/PWr9FjjPAa9JMJRsSTEERBRuOX26s89TK/V0sG1ahZ2E1fXAPKiMI8= Received: by 10.36.121.1 with SMTP id t1mr872072nzc; Thu, 13 Apr 2006 09:20:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.37.22.74 with HTTP; Thu, 13 Apr 2006 09:20:57 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2006 20:20:57 +0400 From: "Andrew Pantyukhin" To: "FreeBSD Questions" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Cc: Subject: X11/xterm Unicode woes X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2006 16:21:03 -0000 About a month ago UTF-8 locale stopped working in my xterm. I fail to find comprehensive documentation on fonts in X11 and therefore I fail to fully understand and trace the problem. I'll be most grateful if somebody leads me to a source of fine docs, but I'm really full of doubt after much googling. README.fonts and manpages are helpful in that they shed some light on how to tune a working setup, but I can't learn the way fonts work from them. I don't have any fontpaths defined in xorg.conf, I though it wasn't a problem. xfontsel have always shown some 12000 matches, many of which were unicode. Now I try xfontsel - and it only shows matches in default fontpaths until I run xset fp+ on the rest of them. Nevertheless, xterm fails to display russian fonts, and displays only a fraction of the Chinese and Japanese it used to display. A couple of weeks ago I installed a fresh FreeBSD system on another computer - and everything works great there. But my issue is not a singleton, I stumble upon it both at work and at home. I don't use russian in console that much, but I still do occasionally. I have to support file servers with UTF-8 filenames. And I start experiencing some obscure problems with encodings (like, for example, mldonkey is totally freaked out) on other FreeBSD systems, so I really want to sort this out. Thanks!