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From: petri@digiw.UUCP (Petri Alhola)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Xterm , 8 bit international fonts and font editor
Keywords: xterm , font
Message-ID: <927@digiw.UUCP>
Date: 18 Oct 89 19:37:46 GMT
Organization: Digiware Oy Helsinki , Finland
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 I like to use Xterm with international ( or scandinavian )fonts .
 It seems that xterm as default supports only 7 bit character sets and
 so it does not allow to use 8 bit international character sets.
 I hacked xterm for supporting 8 bit codes. largest work was just
 to expand all vt100 ? control code tables for 256 bytes long.
 now it prints out 8 bit charactes. The only problem is that 
 now i have my special xterm. Is there any plans or some
 general international xterm for european languages. If there
 is others that are intrested european xterm, i can send diffs for it.
 But still i think that i am not first one that has made this.

 Second problem appears when i try to find 8 bit fonts. Most of X11.3
 fonts are only 7 bit ones. I need to have few international 
 characted more ( like a and o with two dots in top) .
 So is there any public domain font editor for X11.3 or is there 
 any 8 bit ( latin1 , dos ) fonts . The only one that i have is
 ega font.
                                                   

 petri@digiw.fi
 petri@digiw.uucp