[Fontconfig] OpenBSD -current and "xterm -fa 'Courier New:family=ru'"

Keith Packard keithp at keithp.com
Sat Jul 19 12:07:30 PDT 2003


Around 16 o'clock on Jul 19, Alexander Farber wrote:

> But how could I make xterm display russian letters correctly?
> I've tried: xterm -fa 'Courier New:lang=ru' but the russian chars
> aren't displayed. Here's the more verbose output:

When using fontconfig, xterm is a unicode-only application, so you'll want 
to run 

$ xterm -u8 -fa 'courier new' -e luit

You might check the manual for 'luit' to see what options are available 
for that program.

-keith





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