Re: Cyrillic font for xterm/urxvt

Vladimir Kondratyev <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.x11,gmane.os.freebsd.questions
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 2020-11-19 13:48, Vladimir Kondratyev wrote:
> On 2020-11-19 13:32, Vladimir Kondratyev wrote:
>> On 2020-11-19 13:28, Matthias Apitz wrote:
>>> El día jueves, noviembre 19, 2020 a las 01:12:32p. m. +0300, Vladimir
>>> Kondratyev escribió:
>>> 
>>>> On 2020-11-19 09:05, Matthias Apitz wrote:
>>>> > Hello,
>>>> >
>>>> > I'm German and I study Russian language. I'm switching with a lot of
>>>> > xmodmap commands:
>>>> >
>>>> > $ cat Russian/.xmodmap-cyrillic
>>>> > keycode 0x40 =  Mode_switch
>>>> > ! Russian (mapping attempts phonetic proximity)
>>>> > keysym a = a A Cyrillic_a  Cyrillic_A
>>>> > keysym b = b B Cyrillic_be Cyrillic_BE
>>>> > keysym c = c C Cyrillic_che Cyrillic_CHE
>>>> > keysym d = d D Cyrillic_de Cyrillic_DE
>>>> > ...
>>>> >
>>>> > my German keyboard layout (QWERTZ) with the Win-key to get the Russian
>>>> > UTF-8 chars, like абсдефг .... это всё хорошо. What I'd like to have is
>>>> > a font for urxvt where the glyphs are more similar to the normal
>>>> > Russian
>>>> > printing layout, for example where the Russian 'т' looks more like the
>>>> > Enlish 'm'
>>>> > Is this clear what I mean? Any ideas for a good font name?
>>>> 
>>>> It is not clear what you mean. 'т' looks more like the English 'm' 
>>>> in
>>>> handwritten Russian, so you can choose any italic font.
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> I mean a font where the 'т' looks like as in this:
>>> http://www.unixarea.de/cyrillic.jpg
>>> What would be an exact font name for urxvt -fn "xxxxx" ?
>> 
>> urxvt -fn "xft:Bitstream Vera Sans Mono:pixelsize=24:style=Oblique"
>> 
> 
> Ouch. It is appeared that "Bitstream Vera Sans Mono" do not have
> Cyrillic glyphs.
> Sorry.
> 
> But that does not matter. just run fc-list, find any font with 
> style:Italic,
> and than check it for Cyrillic glyphs presence. Most of webfont should
> be useable e.g.
> 
>  urxvt -fn "xft:Arial:pixelsize=24:style=Italic"
> 

After some checking, it appeared that very few of monospace fonts have 
m-style 'т'
Consolas is one of them (x11-fonts/webfonts with CLEARTYPE option 
enabled)

urxvt -fn "xft:Consolas:pixelsize=24:style=Italic"

> 
>>> 
>>> Thanks
>>> 
>>> 	matthias

-- 
WBR
Vladimir Kondratyev
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