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Revision: 1.9
Committed: Sat Aug 14 19:38:27 2004 UTC (19 years, 9 months ago) by root
Branch: MAIN
CVS Tags: rel-3_7
Changes since 1.8: +6 -5 lines
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# User Rev Content
1 pcg 1.1 Sketchy overview of the details:
2    
3 root 1.8 See also the FAQ section in doc/rxvt.1.txt, and README.configure.
4    
5 pcg 1.1 - the options used in the ./reconf script should work. everything else
6 pcg 1.5 might work and might be broken.
7 pcg 1.1
8 pcg 1.3 - wchar_t MUST be UNICODE or ISO-10646-1 on your system, or various things
9 pcg 1.6 will break down. On GNU/Linux, this is true for all locales, on Solaris,
10     this might be true only for locales ending in "@ucs", but you should
11     have plenty of them, as there should be a corresponding @ucs-locale for
12     every normal locale.
13    
14     If you know details for other operating systems, please notify me (in
15     general, if your env defines __STDC_ISO_10646__ then everything should
16     be fine).
17 pcg 1.3
18     - rxvt will use unicode internally, but does input/output in the current
19 pcg 1.5 locale. so to get a utf-8 terminal, use "LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 rxvt" or
20 pcg 1.3 equivalent.
21    
22     - you can specify a different locale to be used for your input method
23     using the imLocale ressource or switch, e.g.:
24     LC_CTYPE=ja_JP.UTF-8 rxvt -imlocale ja_JP.EUC-JP
25 pcg 1.1
26 pcg 1.7 - keyboard input is limited by the selected locale (and X's support for
27     it), tty input and output likewise. Selection support is independent of
28     the locale.
29 pcg 1.5
30 pcg 1.1 - "-fn" commandline switch and *.font ressource accepts a comma
31     seperated list of fontnames:
32    
33     x:9x15bold a x11 font
34     9x15bold the same
35     xft:Andale Mono a xft font
36     xft:Andale Mono:pixelsize=20
37 pcg 1.7 9x15bold,terminus-15
38 pcg 1.1
39 pcg 1.3 - the _first_ font in the list selects the cell width/height. All other
40     fonts must be smaller or same sized, or they will be ignored or worse.
41 pcg 1.5 xft fonts will automatically be rescaled, x11-fonts, too, if their
42     size is not specified in the XLFD.
43 pcg 1.1
44     - the fonts will be tried in the order given when searching for a font
45 pcg 1.7 to display a specific character. if you are e.g. mainly interested
46     in japanese you might want to put a japanese font first to get the
47     ascii characters glyphs from it. If you are mainly interested in a text
48     terminal and only want to display other characters you should put a
49     ascii/is8859 text font first (e.g. "9x15bold") and let rxvt sort it out.
50 pcg 1.1
51 pcg 1.3 - xft fonts require gobs of memory and generally are slow. try not to
52 pcg 1.7 antialias them ("Font:antialias=false") when possible. Might look
53 pcg 1.5 better, too, as they then match other fonts in weight.
54 pcg 1.1
55 pcg 1.3 - src/defaultfont.C lists the fallback fonts that are tried when a
56     character cannot be displayed with the current list of fonts.
57 pcg 1.1
58 root 1.9 - if the realBold resource has been set, bold fonts will be used to
59     display text with the bold attribute; you should specify the bold fonts
60     you want to use in the list of fonts after the normal fonts
61 pcg 1.5
62 root 1.9 - otherwise, normal bold text will use reverse video unless the colorBD
63     resource has been set. coloured text will use high-intensity colours for
64     bold.
65 pcg 1.5
66 pcg 1.1 Marc <rxvt@plan9.de>
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