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Date:      Wed, 28 May 2014 03:51:19 -0400
From:      Thomas Dickey <dickey@his.com>
To:        Thomas Mueller <mueller6724@bellsouth.net>
Cc:        freebsd-x11@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Where are utf8-capable fonts?
Message-ID:  <20140528075119.GA3812@aerie.jexium-island.net>
In-Reply-To: <761470.45850.bm@smtp111.sbc.mail.ne1.yahoo.com>
References:  <761470.45850.bm@smtp111.sbc.mail.ne1.yahoo.com>

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On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 12:04:57AM -0700, Thomas Mueller wrote:
> I looked in my fonts directories and /usr/ports/x11-fonts/ and couldn't f=
ind
> anything identifiable as utf8-capable.
>=20
> What brings this up is all those annoying funny apostrophes that show as
>=20
> i???\200\231m currently running into problem when trying to ???\200\234ma=
ke
> install???\200\235 qmail with the following options en
>=20
> This is an example copied and pasted in an xterm from pkgsrc-users@netbsd=
=2Eorg
> emailing list, though the problem with those funny apostrophes not render=
ing
> properly is just as annoying with FreeBSD emailing lists.

:-)
=20
> When I send email, I always use plain regular apostrophes (ASCII 39) and
> quotes (ASCII 34).

=2E..and some programs "improve" your experience :-)
=20
> I tried=20
> ls -lR /usr/local/libX11/fonts/ | grep "utf"
> also for "UTF" and even "en_US"
> and got nothing.

xlsfonts | fgrep 10646

The shell script "uxterm" sets up xterm with a selection of the most useful=
/available fonts.

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Thomas E. Dickey <dickey@invisible-island.net>
http://invisible-island.net
ftp://invisible-island.net

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