Re: XFree86 4.0 is available

[Thomas.Wolff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

Markus wrote:

: All my very latest -misc-fixed-* fonts (ISO10646-1 truncated to below
: U+3200, plus a few selected 8-bit derivatives) are in there, plus Mark's
: ClearlyU font plus the new (Latin only) scalable B&H Luxidux fonts, plus
: reencoding mechanisms for all scalable font backends (TrueType, Type1,
: Speedo). With the TrueType renderer, you can also install all Microsoft
: Type1 fonts and use them as iso10464-1 fonts now.
( ^TT, presumably) That's great. I'd appreciate very much to have a wider 
choice of fonts for terminal display. Unfortunately, xterm doesn't really 
support using proportional fonts - it seems to adjust the character cell 
to the widest glyph in the font which is not useful for average text.
I would appreciate an option to adjust (center) all characters into a cell 
of definable width - or of some reasonable default character width like 
that of the letter m or W. I had suggested that to Thomas Dickey a while 
ago but he was hesitating. Of course, the need to clip some characters 
in such a mode is not attractive from a general perspective but the results 
may still be useful and pleasant.
Someone else had pointed out to me that some bdf tool could clip 
proportional into fixed fonts. I'd think that's the more cumbersome way, 
especially as I couldn't find out how to convince that tool to do it...

: Mark has patched xfontsel to display iso10646-1 font correctly (before
: that, xfontsel assumed that all 16-bit fonts are JIS).
It used to crash in my current Linux installation - was that the problem?

: Bruno has included a few things towards Xlib locale support of UTF-8,
: but I'll better leave it to him to describe the current status. Is it
: already good enough to allow us to remove the Unicode keyboard mapping
: from xterm again?
I would consider here what I had already argued for my editor - it's 
always nice to be able to install certain basic software on legacy 
systems as well. I would regret if I couldn't have a UTF-8 xterm any more 
on an older system as I can now.

Kind regards,
Thomas Wolff
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