Re: [tlug] mlterm mojibake problem

[Scott Robbins <scottro@example.com>]

On Sun, Jul 22, 2007 at 10:06:37AM -0700, steven smith wrote:
> Hi All
> 
> The local looks right to me -- just about everything is
> en_US.UTF-8.  I selected utf8 encoding from the app's gui.
> I didn't see a way to select a specific font in the gui.  I
> suspect the key is in the config files under /etc/mlterm.
> I've been looking at the /etc/mlterm/fonts file and don't
> understand the syntax.  A typical line looks like
> ISO10646_UCS4_1 =
> -efont-fixed-medium-r-normal--%d-*-iso10646-1;13,-misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-*-iso10646-1;18,-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--18-*-iso10646-1;
> 
Josh has a page on mlterm at 

http://www.scottro.net/qnd/qnd-mlterm.html   (It might be on the wiki as
well. 


This can be a tricky, aggravating thing.  I've never really come up with
a perfect solution.  You might try rxvt-unicode which seems to do almost
everything mlterm can do and seems to be a little less prone to
breakage. 

There is a file $HOME/.mlterm/main as well.  

Mine looks like


bg_color = gray
scrollbar_mode = 0
fontsize = 18
fade_ratio = 75
borderless = true
name = xterm


That fontsize 18 can often be a problem on various distros--on this
FreeBSD workstation it works well for me. 


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