Re: display japanese
that weird prompt is actually just the cursor. nothing like my original
prompt, i was figuring since i am still in bash the prompt should look
the same, but it's just nothing but the cursor, so i don't really know
how to post that.
but thanks, i'll try the other font too.
On Wednesday, 16 November 2005 at 23:37:57 -0500, Derek Martin wrote:
>On Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 07:44:35AM -0800, Eric Dan wrote:
>> hi,
>>
>> i use archlinux and Eterm.
>> i got the en_US.utf8 from "locale -a" i remember it being little
>> different on my ubuntu box. but i guess for arch this is right.
>> anyways, your command for xterm works. it gives me some odd prompt, but
>> i can use scim to put in kanji and hiragana.
>
>So it seems like it was mostly a font issue. I'm curious about that
>the "odd prompt" is... Would you mind posting it? You can use the
>same font with Eterm, and it should work, though I'm not sure how to
>tell Eterm to use that font. If you want a bigger font, you can also
>try this one:
>
> -Misc-Fixed-Medium-R-Normal--18-120-100-100-C-90-ISO10646-1
>
>The trick is that these two fonts (this one and the previous one I
>mentioned) are multi-byte unicode fonts which have the glyphs for the
>Japanese characters included. These are the only two bitmapped fonts
>I'm aware of that have them (they include all the Japanese, Chinese,
>and Korean glyphs).
>
>If you used konsole or gnome-terminal instead, all that should be
>handled for you. It should work there "automagically" without any
>configuration, other than setting your locale properly. But the font
>rendering in those terminals sucks... Hard to read without using big
>fonts.
>
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