Problems with fonts

[( Marc A. Lehmann )]

On Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 02:36:37PM +0600, "Peter A. Shevtsov" <peter at shevtsov.fanstvo.com> wrote:
> First of all merry Christmas to all of you and happy New Year!

Thanks, to you, too!

> My everyday job is connected with various texts in various languages, so 
> I was looking for such terminal which supports unicode and can view 
> various characters such as Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Arabic, etc. So it 

You will have luck with japanese, chinese, korean, but not with
arabic. It's not clear to me how to display arabic scripts properly on a
terminal, and the curent display is ikely unusable.

> URxvt*font: -misc-console-medium-r-normal--17-*-*-*-c-*-iso10646-1, 
> -monotype-arial unicode ms-medium-r-normal-*-17-*-*-*-p-*-iso10646-1
> With such settings ASCII and Cyrillic characters are fine, but Japanese 
> for example are displayed as boxes :(

If you indeed have the arial ms unicode font (try xlsfonts|grep ... and
check wether the exact font exists), then the most likely cause for
the boxes is that the font size is too big. Japanese characters often
are a bit higher. Try not to specify a size except for the first font.
rxvt-unicode will try to find a matching size automatically.

Also, did you disable xft support? If not, you might try using it through
xft. The funny thing is, however, is that rxvt-unicode already looks for
arial unicode ms as default fallback for missing characters, so either you
disabled xft support, or you don't have it installed through fontconfig.

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