Re: [Mlterm-dev-en] Using multiple unicode fonts in mlterm

[Araki K. <ara...@us...>]

 Hi,

From: "Ian D. Leroux" <idl...@fa...>
Subject: [Mlterm-dev-en] Using multiple unicode fonts in mlterm
Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2016 22:02:10 +0200
Message-ID: <201...@fa...>

> One of the features I find exciting about mlterm is the option to
> specify which fonts to use for different unicode ranges, rather than
> relying on fontconfig's automatic fallback mechanism.  I'm not sure
> that I understand how this works though.  As an (admittedly silly)
> test case, consider the following .mlterm/aafont setting:
> 
> DEFAULT=DejaVu Sans Mono
> U+00-ff=Terminus
> 
> I would expect this to use Terminus for the first 255 code points and
> DejaVu for higher codepoints.  In fact it uses DejaVu for the ASCII
> characters, and Terminus only for characters in the f0-ff range (such
> as 'é', U+00E9).

 It is not supported to specify which font to use for U+00-7f for now.
 A font specified as DEFAULT or ISO10646_UCS4_1 is used to show U+00-7f characters.

 I'll add this limitation to the man page.

> On the other hand, if I set
> 
> DEFAULT=DejaVu Sans Mono
> U+f0-ff=Terminus
> 
> (which I would expect to reproduce the behaviour I observed in the
> first case) then Terminus never gets used at all.

 If you use Terminus for U+00E9, specify as follows instead of U+f0-ff.

U+80-ff=Terminus

 Regards,
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Araki Ken
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