From 3b68130b961231ca97766c323746bc425113d68a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: pcg Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2003 07:36:33 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] *** empty log message *** --- README.unicode | 29 ++++++++++++++++++----------- 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.unicode b/README.unicode index 1d2c90e6..4f7aef34 100644 --- a/README.unicode +++ b/README.unicode @@ -6,12 +6,17 @@ Sketchy overview of the details: - the options used in the ./reconf script should work. everything else might be broken. -- wchar_t MUST be UNICODE or ISO-10646-1 on your system, or various - things will break down. On GNU/Linux, this is true, on Solaris, - this is true only for "@ucs" locales, but you should have plenty of them. +- wchar_t MUST be UNICODE or ISO-10646-1 on your system, or various things + will break down. On GNU/Linux, this is true, on Solaris, this is true + only for "@ucs" locales, but you should have plenty of them. -- rxvt ALWAYS expects utf-8 input, regardless of the locale, currently. - so only start it in a utf-8-locale: "LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 rxvt" etc.. +- rxvt will use unicode internally, but does input/output in the current + locale. so get a utf-8 terminal, use "LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 rxvt" or + equivalent. + +- you can specify a different locale to be used for your input method + using the imLocale ressource or switch, e.g.: + LC_CTYPE=ja_JP.UTF-8 rxvt -imlocale ja_JP.EUC-JP - "-fn" commandline switch and *.font ressource accepts a comma seperated list of fontnames: @@ -21,9 +26,9 @@ Sketchy overview of the details: xft:Andale Mono a xft font xft:Andale Mono:pixelsize=20 -- the _first_ font in the list selects the cell width/height. All other fonts - must be smaller or same sized, or they will be ignored or worse. xft fonts - will automatically be rescaled. +- the _first_ font in the list selects the cell width/height. All other + fonts must be smaller or same sized, or they will be ignored or worse. + xft fonts will automatically be rescaled. - the fonts will be tried in the order given when searching for a font to display a specific character. if you are e.g. mainly interested in @@ -32,10 +37,12 @@ Sketchy overview of the details: only want to display other characters you should put a ascii/is8859 text font first (e.g. "9x15bold") and let rxvt sort it out. -- xft fonts require gobs of memory and generally are slow +- xft fonts require gobs of memory and generally are slow. try not to + antialias them ("Font:antialias=false") when possible. Often looks better, + too. -- src/defaultfont.C lists the fallback fonts that are tried when a character cannot - be displayed with the current list of fonts. +- src/defaultfont.C lists the fallback fonts that are tried when a + character cannot be displayed with the current list of fonts. Marc -- 2.34.1