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Revision: 1.4
Committed: Mon Feb 2 19:07:48 2004 UTC (20 years, 3 months ago) by pcg
Branch: MAIN
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# User Rev Content
1 pcg 1.1 Sketchy overview of the details:
2    
3 pcg 1.4 - gcc-3.x is probably required to compile this release, g++, too, as it
4     has been re-written in C++.
5 pcg 1.1
6     - the options used in the ./reconf script should work. everything else
7     might be broken.
8    
9 pcg 1.3 - wchar_t MUST be UNICODE or ISO-10646-1 on your system, or various things
10     will break down. On GNU/Linux, this is true, on Solaris, this is true
11     only for "@ucs" locales, but you should have plenty of them.
12    
13     - rxvt will use unicode internally, but does input/output in the current
14     locale. so get a utf-8 terminal, use "LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 rxvt" or
15     equivalent.
16    
17     - you can specify a different locale to be used for your input method
18     using the imLocale ressource or switch, e.g.:
19     LC_CTYPE=ja_JP.UTF-8 rxvt -imlocale ja_JP.EUC-JP
20 pcg 1.1
21     - "-fn" commandline switch and *.font ressource accepts a comma
22     seperated list of fontnames:
23    
24     x:9x15bold a x11 font
25     9x15bold the same
26     xft:Andale Mono a xft font
27     xft:Andale Mono:pixelsize=20
28    
29 pcg 1.3 - the _first_ font in the list selects the cell width/height. All other
30     fonts must be smaller or same sized, or they will be ignored or worse.
31     xft fonts will automatically be rescaled.
32 pcg 1.1
33     - the fonts will be tried in the order given when searching for a font
34     to display a specific character. if you are e.g. mainly interested in
35     japanese you might want to put a japanese font first to get the ascii
36     characters in it. If you are mainly interested in a text terminal and
37     only want to display other characters you should put a ascii/is8859 text
38     font first (e.g. "9x15bold") and let rxvt sort it out.
39    
40 pcg 1.3 - xft fonts require gobs of memory and generally are slow. try not to
41     antialias them ("Font:antialias=false") when possible. Often looks better,
42     too.
43 pcg 1.1
44 pcg 1.3 - src/defaultfont.C lists the fallback fonts that are tried when a
45     character cannot be displayed with the current list of fonts.
46 pcg 1.1
47     Marc <rxvt@plan9.de>
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