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ayleid96
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 Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2016 5:35 pm Post subject: [SOLVED] Gentoo installation doesn't support unicode... |
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Hi,
For almost a week i am using gentoo without problems, playing doom 3, steam games etc.. but from installation X nor virtual terminal (ctrl+alt+2) doesn't support unicode, only firefox.. i have some files written in cyrilic RS and some german files, also i visit unicode stuff via terminall but i when i run urxvt i just see cubes xd Sorry if there is this type of question i didn't searched... this is some performance i was looking from an OS.. LXDE flavors from other distros cannot even come near gentoo.. thanks in advance
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Btw, my locale is en_US.utf8...
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| Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2016 6:00 pm Post subject: |
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ayleid96,
Have you worked you way through the guideon the wiki?
This old page may be useful for background.
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Ant P.
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| Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2016 6:28 pm Post subject: |
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urxvt is awful at Unicode (despite its name). You need to configure a complete list of fonts in .Xresources to cover all characters you might be using, it won't autoload them by itself.
For everything else, just installing media-fonts/noto should be enough to fix any missing character boxes. |
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ayleid96
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| NeddySeagoon wrote: | ayleid96,
Have you worked you way through the guideon the wiki?
This old page may be useful for background. |
it seems that my kernel don't support utf... i will recompile and report back |
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ayleid96
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| Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2016 6:42 pm Post subject: |
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| Ant P. wrote: | urxvt is awful at Unicode (despite its name). You need to configure a complete list of fonts in .Xresources to cover all characters you might be using, it won't autoload them by itself.
For everything else, just installing media-fonts/noto should be enough to fix any missing character boxes. |
urxvt worked fine on every distro.. but if i need to specify every lang to use... then i will use lxterminal.. i dunno.. i don't like X config files its too confusing... i just know how to work with xorg.conf and xinitrc and thats enough xD |
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Ant P.
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| If you want a minimal terminal that does unicode right then there's x11-terms/st, but that has its own pretty severe tradeoffs (need to run screen/tmux to have scrollback, etc.) |
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ayleid96
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| Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2016 7:20 pm Post subject: |
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| Ant P. wrote: | | If you want a minimal terminal that does unicode right then there's x11-terms/st, but that has its own pretty severe tradeoffs (need to run screen/tmux to have scrollback, etc.) |
x11-terms/st is listed in blocked packages? why is this? D: |
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Ant P.
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| Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2016 8:17 pm Post subject: |
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| Didn't have that problem on my machines. What's the actual error? |
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| Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2016 9:29 pm Post subject: |
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ayleid96,
eix says
| Code: | $ eix x11-terms/st
* x11-terms/st
Available versions: (~)0.3[1] 0.5{tbz2} (~)0.5{tbz2}[1] (~)0.6 (~)0.6-r1 **9999 {savedconfig}
Homepage: http://st.suckless.org/
Description: simple terminal implementation for X |
so there are no versions considered stable on Gentoo. That means that its not well tested but its been compiled and had at least some testing, so its known not to be totally broken. The (~) means testing. The ** means no keywords at all. The version 9999 means its a 'live' versions that will be fetched from the upstream repository when its built.
You probably have a stable Gentoo, as that's the default. The Gentoo Handbook tells how to allow testing packages to be considered for installation, either en masse or individually.
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| Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2016 6:43 am Post subject: |
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| Out of curiosity: what is wrong with the unicode support of the standard xterm[unicode] (in contrast to e.g. st)? |
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ayleid96
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| Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2016 7:53 pm Post subject: |
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everything working now.... i just recompiled kernel i didn't add some features in Native Languages section... thanks anyway  |
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