possible bug finding a Plane 1 character in a font list

Dan Corson dancor at gmail.com
Sat Mar 4 13:04:01 CET 2006


this happened for me in v5.3 emerged on gentoo and v7.7 built from
source tarball.

1) i built with --enable-unicode3 (also tried --enable-everything)
2) i installed a gothic alphabet font "damase", the third down one at
http://www.travelphrases.info/gallery/Fonts_Gothic.html
3) i restarted x11
4) now firefox can display gothic characters, like at
http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/gothic.html
5) i tried to view gothic characters in rxvt, such as U+10330

this worked with
./rxvt -fn "xft:MPH 2B Damase:style=Regular"
and
./rxvt -fn "xft:Arial, xft:MPH 2B Damase:style=Regular"
and
./rxvt -fn "xft:Arial, fixed, xft:MPH 2B Damase:style=Regular"

but i got squares with
./rxvt -fn "fixed, xft: Arial, xft:MPH 2B Damase:style=Regular"
and
./rxvt -fn "fixed,xft:MPH 2B Damase:style=Regular"
and also with no font list
./rxvt

i figure either my font is installed somewhat wrongly, or rxvt is
having trouble looking for Plane 1 characters.  --dan




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