Greek Accent Problem

Marc Lehmann schmorp at schmorp.de
Thu Jul 1 03:16:53 CEST 2010


On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 06:48:37PM -0500, Kevin Monceaux <Kevin at RawFedDogs.net> wrote:
> > You need to specify additional fonts to urxvt if it can't find any.
> > 
> > > Is rxvt-unicode able to display the above correctly?
> > 
> > Yes, works just fine here.
> 
> It seems gnome-terminal was able to find the fonts I had recently installed
> without restarting X.  After restarting X rxvt-unicode is displaying
> polytonic Greek correctly also.  

Most likely, you tried it out in gnome-terminal after it didn't work in
urxvt, so urxvt already had the font list cahced, and gnome-temrinal
probably didn't.

Both programs use the same underlying code to find fonts (although they
select differently).

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