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

Mark J. Reed markjreed@gmail.com
Tue Dec 9 16:02:00 GMT 2008


On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 10:39 AM, Yongwei Wu wrote:
> I got these messages:
>
> 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.

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