Re: xterm-237-2 still has no UTF-8 support

["Yongwei Wu" <wuyongwei at gmail dot com>]

Mark J. Reed wrote:
>> Warning: Cannot convert string
>> "-adobe-helvetica-bold-r-normal--*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-*" to type
>> FontStruct
>> Warning: Cannot convert string "nil2" to type FontStruct
>>
>> And non-ASCII characters become either spaces or question marks.  I
>> verified that I can copy the correct characters, but they do not
>> appear.
>
> If you can copy them and they appear properly when you paste, that
> would seem to imply that the xterm is correctly handling the Unicode
> characters.  It's just that the associated glyphs are not present in
> the font you're using.

Good reasoning.  I think you are right.

Then who is to blame? :-) Another phenomenon I have observed: one
cannot change the fonts in the VT Fonts menu.  Something is still
wrong here, but I am not sure whether it is in xterm or the rest of
the XWindow system.

Best regards,

Yongwei

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