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Sketchy overview of the details: |
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- the options used in the ./reconf script should work. everything else |
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might work and might be broken. |
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- wchar_t MUST be UNICODE or ISO-10646-1 on your system, or various things |
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will break down. On GNU/Linux, this is true for all locales, on Solaris, |
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this might be true only for locales ending in "@ucs", but you should |
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have plenty of them, as there should be a corresponding @ucs-locale for |
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every normal locale. |
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If you know details for other operating systems, please notify me (in |
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general, if your env defines __STDC_ISO_10646__ then everything should |
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be fine). |
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- rxvt will use unicode internally, but does input/output in the current |
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locale. so to get a utf-8 terminal, use "LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 rxvt" or |
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equivalent. |
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- you can specify a different locale to be used for your input method |
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using the imLocale ressource or switch, e.g.: |
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LC_CTYPE=ja_JP.UTF-8 rxvt -imlocale ja_JP.EUC-JP |
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- keyboard input is limited by the selected locale (and X's support for |
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it), tty input and output likewise. Selection support is independent of |
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the locale. |
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- "-fn" commandline switch and *.font ressource accepts a comma |
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seperated list of fontnames: |
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x:9x15bold a x11 font |
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9x15bold the same |
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xft:Andale Mono a xft font |
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xft:Andale Mono:pixelsize=20 |
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9x15bold,terminus-15 |
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- the _first_ font in the list selects the cell width/height. All other |
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fonts must be smaller or same sized, or they will be ignored or worse. |
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xft fonts will automatically be rescaled, x11-fonts, too, if their |
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size is not specified in the XLFD. |
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- the fonts will be tried in the order given when searching for a font |
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to display a specific character. if you are e.g. mainly interested |
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in japanese you might want to put a japanese font first to get the |
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ascii characters glyphs from it. If you are mainly interested in a text |
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terminal and only want to display other characters you should put a |
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ascii/is8859 text font first (e.g. "9x15bold") and let rxvt sort it out. |
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- xft fonts require gobs of memory and generally are slow. try not to |
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antialias them ("Font:antialias=false") when possible. Might look |
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better, too, as they then match other fonts in weight. |
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- src/defaultfont.C lists the fallback fonts that are tried when a |
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character cannot be displayed with the current list of fonts. |
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- using bold fonts for the bold attribute is not supported by xft |
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and will not be supported by rxvt-unicode, either, even for normal X11 |
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fonts. |
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- normal bold text will use reverse video unless the colorBD resource has |
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been set. coloured text will use high-intensity colours for bold. |
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Marc <rxvt@plan9.de> |
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