[tlug] xterm with hiragana/kanji

[Christian Horn <chorn@example.com>]

Hi all,


until recently I used

  xterm -en UTF-8 -fg white -bg black -fn -Misc-Fixed-Medium-R-Normal--18-120-100-100-C-90-ISO10646-1 -e bash

to open terminals, then switched with uim-xim the input-mode
and entered Hiragana/Kanji.
This stopped on my linux-installations, just white boxes are seen 
instead of Hiragana/Kanji. 
Viewing a utf8-file works thou, accessing mails with Kanji in mutt 
no longer works, same for entering Japanese in irssi.  

After pressing <strg>+rightmousekey and selecting font 'Large' all 
works again, but I didnt see a way to get this configured 
automatically. 

This different font works without further interaction, but is 
inconveniently big:

  xterm -fn -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal-ja-18-120-100-100-c-180-iso10646-1

urxvt works for me:

  urxvt -fg white -bg black -sb -fn -Misc-Fixed-Medium-R-Normal--18-120-100-100-C-90-ISO10646-1 -e bash

but takes longer to load.

Also i tried different fonts with xterm, a listing of the available fonts 
comes back from executing “xlsfonts”.  Visually trying out all these
18.000 installed fonts doesnt seem practical thou..

Any good ideas or do i have to live with urxvt for now?


Christian