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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[-- Attachment #1 --] 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 find > anything identifiable as utf8-capable. > > What brings this up is all those annoying funny apostrophes that show as > > i???\200\231m currently running into problem when trying to ???\200\234make > install???\200\235 qmail with the following options en > > This is an example copied and pasted in an xterm from pkgsrc-users@netbsd.org > emailing list, though the problem with those funny apostrophes not rendering > properly is just as annoying with FreeBSD emailing lists. :-) > When I send email, I always use plain regular apostrophes (ASCII 39) and > quotes (ASCII 34). ...and some programs "improve" your experience :-) > I tried > 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. -- Thomas E. Dickey <dickey@invisible-island.net> http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlOFlXcACgkQcCNT4PfkjtuyNQCgx++G2Km30vnlSoqcq89+Sdsl JkEAoIiQV2OL4g0kqe/0mvsdLrplI/H0 =JaYa -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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