Re: Unix Unicode Editors

On Wed, 14 Nov 2001, Tristan Alexander McLeay wrote:

> On Tue, 13 Nov 2001, John Cowan wrote:
>
> > Tristan Alexander McLeay wrote:
> >
> > > Apropos of Unix Unicode editors, I'm pretty sure it's possible to use
> > > Unicode in the console (after all, there's unicode_start and the Unicode
> > > mapping tables in fonts), but are there any completish (i.e. with IPA),
> > > nicish looking 8x10 fonts for the console?
> >
> >
> > XFree86 4.x delivers a very broad-based console font.
>
> Maybe I've misstated my question, or does that actually work with the
> console _outside_ of X? What is the font's name?
>
No - not quite. There is a possibility to use Unicode keymaps,
and there are some extended Unicode fonts for the console, but
things are not quite as advanced as xterm fonts.

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