On Saturday 05 June 2010 19:13:24 Mick wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I emerged rxvt-unicode because aterm which I have been using faithfully for
> years does not do UTF8, but as you can see in the attachment all bold
> characters look distorted.  In xterm and aterm they look nice and clear
>  when bold.
> 
> How can I fix this?

It seems that it was a limitation of the fixed font that I had defined for 
aterm in .Xresources:

aterm*font:-*-fixed-*-*-*-*-20-*-100-*-*-*-*-*

Setting a different font and using xft seems to overcome this problem:

/usr/bin/urxvt -pe tabbed -fn "x:Bitstream Vera Sans Mono:pixelsize=15"

No idea why aterm copes with fixed font and urxvt does not ...

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Regards,
Mick