Sketchy overview of the details: - gcc is probably required to compile this release, g++, too, as it has been re-written in C++. - the options used in the ./reconf script should work. everything else might be broken. - wchar_t MUST be UNICODE or ISO-10646-1 on your system, or various things will break down. - rxvt ALWAYS expects utf-8 input, regardless of the locale, currently. so only start it in a utf-8-locale: "LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 rxvt" etc.. - "-fn" commandline switch and *.font ressource accepts a comma seperated list of fontnames: x:9x15bold a x11 font 9x15bold the same xft:Andale Mono a xft font xft:Andale Mono:pixelsize=20 - 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. xft fonts will automatically be rescaled. - 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. - xft fonts require gobs of memory and generally are slow - src/defaultfont.C lists the fallback fonts that are tried when a character cannot be displayed with the current list of fonts. Marc