--- rxvt-unicode/README.unicode 2004/02/24 22:28:40 1.5 +++ rxvt-unicode/README.unicode 2004/08/14 03:00:32 1.8 @@ -1,14 +1,19 @@ Sketchy overview of the details: -- gcc-3.x is probably required to compile this release, g++-3.x, too, as it - has been re-written in C++ (and a corresponding version of libstdc++). +See also the FAQ section in doc/rxvt.1.txt, and README.configure. - the options used in the ./reconf script should work. everything else might work and might be broken. - wchar_t MUST be UNICODE or ISO-10646-1 on your system, or various things - will break down. On GNU/Linux, this is true, on Solaris, this is true - only for "@ucs" locales, but you should have plenty of them. + will break down. On GNU/Linux, this is true for all locales, on Solaris, + this might be true only for locales ending in "@ucs", but you should + have plenty of them, as there should be a corresponding @ucs-locale for + every normal locale. + + If you know details for other operating systems, please notify me (in + general, if your env defines __STDC_ISO_10646__ then everything should + be fine). - rxvt will use unicode internally, but does input/output in the current locale. so to get a utf-8 terminal, use "LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 rxvt" or @@ -18,7 +23,9 @@ using the imLocale ressource or switch, e.g.: LC_CTYPE=ja_JP.UTF-8 rxvt -imlocale ja_JP.EUC-JP -- keyboard input is limited by the selected X locale. +- keyboard input is limited by the selected locale (and X's support for + it), tty input and output likewise. Selection support is independent of + the locale. - "-fn" commandline switch and *.font ressource accepts a comma seperated list of fontnames: @@ -27,6 +34,7 @@ 9x15bold the same xft:Andale Mono a xft font xft:Andale Mono:pixelsize=20 + 9x15bold,terminus-15 - the _first_ font in the list selects the cell width/height. All other fonts must be smaller or same sized, or they will be ignored or worse. @@ -34,21 +42,21 @@ size is not specified in the XLFD. - the fonts will be tried in the order given when searching for a font - to display a specific character. if you are e.g. mainly interested in - japanese you might want to put a japanese font first to get the ascii - characters in it. If you are mainly interested in a text terminal and - only want to display other characters you should put a ascii/is8859 text - font first (e.g. "9x15bold") and let rxvt sort it out. + to display a specific character. if you are e.g. mainly interested + in japanese you might want to put a japanese font first to get the + ascii characters glyphs from it. If you are mainly interested in a text + terminal and only want to display other characters you should put a + ascii/is8859 text font first (e.g. "9x15bold") and let rxvt sort it out. - xft fonts require gobs of memory and generally are slow. try not to - antialias them ("Font:antialias=false") when possible. Often looks + antialias them ("Font:antialias=false") when possible. Might look better, too, as they then match other fonts in weight. - src/defaultfont.C lists the fallback fonts that are tried when a character cannot be displayed with the current list of fonts. - using bold fonts for the bold attribute is not supported by xft - and will not be supported by rxvt-unicode, either, even for normal x11 + and will not be supported by rxvt-unicode, either, even for normal X11 fonts. - normal bold text will use reverse video unless the colorBD resource has