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Revision: 1.2
Committed: Tue Dec 16 23:04:12 2003 UTC (20 years, 5 months ago) by pcg
Branch: MAIN
Changes since 1.1: +2 -1 lines
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# User Rev Content
1 pcg 1.1 Sketchy overview of the details:
2    
3     - gcc is probably required to compile this release, g++, too, as it has
4     been re-written in C++.
5    
6     - the options used in the ./reconf script should work. everything else
7     might be broken.
8    
9     - wchar_t MUST be UNICODE or ISO-10646-1 on your system, or various
10 pcg 1.2 things will break down. On GNU/Linux, this is true, on Solaris,
11     this is true only for "@ucs" locales, but you should have plenty of them.
12 pcg 1.1
13     - rxvt ALWAYS expects utf-8 input, regardless of the locale, currently.
14     so only start it in a utf-8-locale: "LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 rxvt" etc..
15    
16     - "-fn" commandline switch and *.font ressource accepts a comma
17     seperated list of fontnames:
18    
19     x:9x15bold a x11 font
20     9x15bold the same
21     xft:Andale Mono a xft font
22     xft:Andale Mono:pixelsize=20
23    
24     - the _first_ font in the list selects the cell width/height. All other fonts
25     must be smaller or same sized, or they will be ignored or worse. xft fonts
26     will automatically be rescaled.
27    
28     - the fonts will be tried in the order given when searching for a font
29     to display a specific character. if you are e.g. mainly interested in
30     japanese you might want to put a japanese font first to get the ascii
31     characters in it. If you are mainly interested in a text terminal and
32     only want to display other characters you should put a ascii/is8859 text
33     font first (e.g. "9x15bold") and let rxvt sort it out.
34    
35     - xft fonts require gobs of memory and generally are slow
36    
37     - src/defaultfont.C lists the fallback fonts that are tried when a character cannot
38     be displayed with the current list of fonts.
39    
40     Marc <rxvt@plan9.de>
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