Re: [tlug] unicode font with czech and japanese characters

[Michal Hajek <hajek1@example.com>]

* Stephen J. Turnbull (turnbull@example.com) [070814 16:24]:
>            fc-list | grep 'cs|.*ja\|ja|.*cs' | cut -b 1-72

$ fc-list | grep 'cs|.*ja\|ja|.*cs' | cut -b 1-72
$ 

this unfortunately gives nothing too. Which seems a bit weird sinc you
write 

> In general, though, it looks like most of the Japanese fonts I have
> claim to handle Czech.

there is no "man fc-list" and fc-list --help gives little help too. 

$fc-list gives a lot of output. I get something like this [1]:

---cut here---
Times New Roman:style=Bold Italic,Negreta cursiva,tučné kurzíva,fed
kursiv,Fett Kursiv,Έντονα Πλάγια,Negrita Cursiva,Lihavoitu Kursivoi,Gras
Italique,Félkövér dőlt,Grassetto Corsivo,Vet Cursief,Halvfet
Kursiv,Pogrubiona kursywa,Negrito Itálico,Полужирный Курсив,Tučná
kurzíva,Fet Kursiv,Kalın İtalik,Krepko poševno,nghiêng đậm,Lodi etzana
LMRoman10:style=Bold
New Century Schoolbook:style=Regular
Nimbus Sans L:style=Bold Condensed Italic
LMTypewriter10:style=Light
URW Bookman L:style=Demi Bold Italic
LMRoman10:style=BoldItalic
VL Gothic,VL ゴシック:style=regular
DejaVu Serif:style=Book
---cut here---


According to this kind of output I can guess which fonts support which
languages. For example string "tučné kurzíva" or "Tučná kurzíva" sugest
czech language (although I have no idea if those two strings mean
diferent set of characters or something diferent alltogether). 
ゴシック suggests Japanese.

So based on your claim above (Japanese fonts handle Czech) I have tried 

XTerm*faceName: Sazanami Mincho

in my .Xdefaults [2]

And indeed I could see both Czech and Japanese displayed on my terminal. 
That is great and it is definitely a step towards final solution (prove
of concept I would say). 
So is there any better way of selecting suitable font than going through
all Japanese fonts and try them? 

I suppose the 16 in "Bitstream Vera Sans Mono-16" string is for
pointsize? 

[1] which partly explains why I get nothing from the suggested command
[2] I have .Xdefaults instead .Xresources. That should not hurt
anything, right? 

Best regards
Michal