Re: Several Mutt usage question
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On Monday, July 13 at 01:32 PM, quoth Paul Grinberg:
> Also, I don't remember trying it through GUI. I am always working
> through ssh...so I guess the fonts that I have defined in n18i are
> for GUI based console session, and they don't exist in ssh session.
Well, put it this way - unless something funky is going on, the remote
system is NOT sending fonts to you to use. It's just sending you
character codes which your terminal then has to figure out how to
display. So the fonts to display Hebrew or Russian must be installed
LOCALLY. For example, if I use my Mac's Terminal.app to ssh into my
Linux box and run mutt, everything will be displayed using my Mac's
fonts. And if I use my Linux box to ssh into my Mac, everything will
be displayed using my Linux fonts. The same is true if I start in
Linux and ssh to a Linux box: the display is on the local system, so
that's where the fonts have to be.
(Consider, for example, the difference between ssh and VNC. VNC shows
you the REMOTE COMPUTER's screen, so everything, including the fonts,
is generated by the remote computer. For this reason, there's a LOT of
data being transferred to you from the remote computer, and VNC is
usually very slow. SSH, on the other hand, is much faster because it's
not transmitting nearly as much stuff: just the character codes. The
display (i.e. answering the question "how should I draw the letter
'a'?") is done locally.
~Kyle
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