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

[Yongwei Wu]

Jon TURNEY wrote:
> neomjp wrote:
>> On 2008/12/10 0:39, Yongwei Wu wrote:
>>>> 1. xterm +lc -u8
>>> 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
>> 	These are the default fonts specified in
>> /etc/X11/app-defaults/XTerm.
>>
>> "-adobe-helvetica-..." are provided by font-adobe-dpi100
>> and font-adobe-dpi75, and nil2 is provided by
>> font-misc-misc.
>
> font-misc-misc is critical to this working properly.  If you don't have that
> installed, we end-up using the built-in 'fixed' font, which only has a limited
> set of glyphs (those needed for iso8859-1, I would guess)
>
> (Since 1.5.3-3, the x server has has a built-in 'fixed' font and
> font-misc-misc is not installed by default)

Thanks very much, neomjp and Jon.

My only complaints now are that the new behaviour is not well
documented from the user's point of view (for both the conflict
between -lc and -u8, and the lack of utf-8 fonts by default), and that
the name font-misc-misc is not helpful at all (before reading your
messages, I had already tried some adobe fonts, but not this one).

Best regards,

Yongwei

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