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* [gentoo-user] Compose key and UTF8
@ 2011-09-13  2:43 meino.cramer
  2011-09-13  8:13 ` Pandu Poluan
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: meino.cramer @ 2011-09-13  2:43 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: Gentoo

Hi,

 I am using the US layout for my keyboard in the altgr-intlk variant.
 UTF8 is activated.
 Furthermore I use CAPS LOCK as compose key. I tried compose key
 sequences from /usr/share/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/Compose and many
 do work.
 So I think the basic mechanism is ok.

 But some came out as unfilled squares -- I think a glyph is missing
 here in the font.

 What is the best monospaced font to be used with UTF8 and which
 supports as many glyphs as possible?

 Thank you very much in advance for any help!

 Best regards,
 mcc






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* Re: [gentoo-user] Compose key and UTF8
  2011-09-13  2:43 [gentoo-user] Compose key and UTF8 meino.cramer
@ 2011-09-13  8:13 ` Pandu Poluan
  2011-09-14 20:41   ` Paul Hartman
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Pandu Poluan @ 2011-09-13  8:13 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-user

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On Sep 13, 2011 10:06 AM, <meino.cramer@gmx.de> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
>  I am using the US layout for my keyboard in the altgr-intlk variant.
>  UTF8 is activated.
>  Furthermore I use CAPS LOCK as compose key. I tried compose key
>  sequences from /usr/share/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/Compose and many
>  do work.
>  So I think the basic mechanism is ok.
>
>  But some came out as unfilled squares -- I think a glyph is missing
>  here in the font.
>
>  What is the best monospaced font to be used with UTF8 and which
>  supports as many glyphs as possible?
>
>  Thank you very much in advance for any help!
>
>  Best regards,
>  mcc
>

Deja Vu monospace?

Rgds,

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* Re: [gentoo-user] Compose key and UTF8
  2011-09-13  8:13 ` Pandu Poluan
@ 2011-09-14 20:41   ` Paul Hartman
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Paul Hartman @ 2011-09-14 20:41 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-user

On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 3:13 AM, Pandu Poluan <pandu@poluan.info> wrote:
>
> On Sep 13, 2011 10:06 AM, <meino.cramer@gmx.de> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>>  I am using the US layout for my keyboard in the altgr-intlk variant.
>>  UTF8 is activated.
>>  Furthermore I use CAPS LOCK as compose key. I tried compose key
>>  sequences from /usr/share/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/Compose and many
>>  do work.
>>  So I think the basic mechanism is ok.
>>
>>  But some came out as unfilled squares -- I think a glyph is missing
>>  here in the font.
>>
>>  What is the best monospaced font to be used with UTF8 and which
>>  supports as many glyphs as possible?
>>
>>  Thank you very much in advance for any help!
>>
>>  Best regards,
>>  mcc
>>
>
> Deja Vu monospace?
>
> Rgds,

Seconded. Deja Vu is great-looking and contains almost everything I
encounter. I use it everywhere; programming, web browser, terminal...

More good fonts to get some of the rare Unicode glyphs that aren't
included in most normal fonts (especially the Symbola font has some
fun symbols) are available for free here:
http://users.teilar.gr/~g1951d/



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