Cyrillic font for xterm/urxvt

Vladimir Kondratyev vladimir at kondratyev.su
Thu Nov 19 10:36:44 UTC 2020


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"

> 
> Thanks
> 
> 	matthias

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Vladimir Kondratyev


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