[arch-general] Htop 2.0 fonts

Maxwell Anselm silverhammermba at gmail.com
Wed Mar 9 21:31:29 UTC 2016


On Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 3:57 AM, Garmine 42 <mikro001 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 8 March 2016 at 03:49, Maxwell Anselm <silverhammermba at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I had the same issue in xterm. Changing fonts didn't fix it, but switching
> > to urxvt (with the same font) did. It seems like there's something screwy
> > with xterm's unicode support.
> >
> > On Mon, Mar 7, 2016 at 12:12 AM, Grady Martin <sunnycemetery at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> On 2016年02月17日 00時06分, Garmine 42 wrote:
> >>
> >>> It was indeed a font issue, the one I used did not contain the braille
> >>> characters. Because the same problem existed on my gettys I thought it
> >>> was an encoding issue or something else. Using terminus font at the
> >>> moment (as suggested) and it works perfectly fine.
> >>>
> >>
> >> Well, I am glad I was not the only one affected by this.  I wish there
> >> were at least an option to decide which characters get displayed.
> >>
>
> You need to enable unicode in xterm - i.e. use uxterm instead of xterm.

I already have unicode enabled in xterm. And Braille does show up if I
switch to the default bitmap font, but for whatever reason it doesn't
show up when I use Dejavu Sans Mono (which I prefer). urxvt has no
such problem.


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