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Sketchy overview of the details: |
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- gcc is probably required to compile this release, g++, too, as it has |
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been re-written in C++. |
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- the options used in the ./reconf script should work. everything else |
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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, on Solaris, this is true |
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only for "@ucs" locales, but you should have plenty of them. |
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- rxvt will use unicode internally, but does input/output in the current |
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locale. so 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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- "-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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- 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. |
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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 in |
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japanese you might want to put a japanese font first to get the ascii |
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characters in it. If you are mainly interested in a text terminal and |
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only want to display other characters you should put a ascii/is8859 text |
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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. Often looks better, |
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too. |
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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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Marc <rxvt@plan9.de> |
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