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From: prc@erbe.se (Robert Claeson)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Xterm , 8 bit international fonts and font editor
Keywords: xterm , font
Message-ID: <965@maxim.erbe.se>
Date: 19 Oct 89 09:16:20 GMT
References: <927@digiw.UUCP>
Reply-To: prc@erbe.se (Robert Claeson)
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In article <927@digiw.UUCP> petri@digiw.UUCP (Petri Alhola) writes:

> I like to use Xterm with international ( or scandinavian )fonts .
...
> The only problem is that now i have my special xterm. Is there any
> plans or some general international xterm for european languages.

The problem with an 8-bit xterm (as shipped in X11R3) is that it is an
VT102 emulator. And VT102's doesn't support 8-bit character sets, but
rather various 7-bit national character sets (ASCII being just one of
them). So you should really map back and forth between 7- and 8-bit
characters and add a "language" selection to one of the menus and to
the resource if you want to retain VT102 compatibility.

The *real* way to support true Latin 1 would be to write a VT3xx-
emulator (don't bother trying to extend xterm anymore). VT3xx terminals
uses, among others, ISO 8859/1.

> 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.

In the core X11R3 distribution, there are several ISO 8859/1 fonts. Try
using one of the Courier fonts that Adobe have donated. Or the "terminal"
font from Bitstream.

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          Robert Claeson      E-mail: rclaeson@erbe.se
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