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Scriptor

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Registered: 2011-01-16

Posts: 144

URxvt no unicode

Hello,

I tried to print some unicode glyphs in urxvt but I wasn't able to. It just prints a square.

For example if I try to print this:

echo -e "\u23bc"

it just prints a rectangle.

I tried with xfce4 terminal and no problem.

here is my locale:

LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=

here is locale -a:

C
fr_FR.UTF-8
POSIX

Here is my Xresources:

URxvt.font: xft:Monospace:style=Regular:size=12

Thank you very much for any response

ewaller

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From: Pasadena, CA

Registered: 2009-07-13

Posts: 19,791

Re: URxvt no unicode

Is the character you are looking for in that font?

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Scriptor

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Registered: 2011-01-16

Posts: 144

Re: URxvt no unicode

Thank you for your quick response.

Indeed, I am quite sure (see this), and it displays perfectly with the xfce terminal.

For further information, I installed rxvt-unicde-patched

Thank you very much for any response

Scriptor

Member

Registered: 2011-01-16

Posts: 144

Re: URxvt no unicode

So after some research on the internet and after having tested several fonts, I found out that only this worked:

urxvt -fn "-Misc-Fixed-Medium-R-SemiCondensed--13-120-75-75-C-60-ISO10646-1"

and I still don't know why but it works perfectly with the xfce terminal, and with all the fonts I tested.

Thank you very much for all your help