Terminal emulators and UTF-8

Mika Suomalainen mika.henrik.mainio at hotmail.com
Thu Jul 5 14:39:09 UTC 2012


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On 05.07.2012 13:11, 紳癒礁湖 wrote:
> Are you using Ubuntu font on the terminal or another one? Try it
> our change to Sans or Cantarell. It's specially indicated using
> Ubuntu Mono, it's designed for maintain the spaces between
> characters properly. I use to write japanese characters and this
> happened with some downloaded fonts.
> 
> 
> On Thu, 05 Jul 2012 13:06:14 +0700 Tran Duy Hung
> <nguyentieuhau at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> |  Hi all, | |  I have a problem with the text in terminal
> emulators. Please see the |  screenshot: |
> http://i1044.photobucket.com/albums/b446/nguyentieuhau/2012-07-03-094419_1366x768_scrot.png
>
> 
|
> |  You can see there are some weird spaces between some characters
> or some |  of them overlap together. The emulators in the
> screenshot are |  Lxterminal, gnome-terminal and termit. Guake
> terminal has this problem |  too. The only emulator I don't see
> this problem is xterm. | |  I am using Lubuntu 12.04 64bit in
> Vietnamese interface | |  $ locale |  LANG=vi_VN.UTF-8 |
> LANGUAGE=vi_VN:vi:en_GB:en |  LC_CTYPE="vi_VN.UTF-8" |
> LC_NUMERIC=en_US.UTF-8 |  LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8 |
> LC_COLLATE="vi_VN.UTF-8" |  LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8 |
> LC_MESSAGES="vi_VN.UTF-8" |  LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8 |
> LC_NAME=en_US.UTF-8 |  LC_ADDRESS=en_US.UTF-8 |
> LC_TELEPHONE=en_US.UTF-8 |  LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8 |
> LC_IDENTIFICATION=en_US.UTF-8 |  LC_ALL= | |  Of cousre the default
> English locale is fine. | |  I have seen this problem for a long
> time in Lubuntu but still couldn't |  find a solution, I haven't
> try other *buntu distros yet to see if this |  problem exists in
> them too. | |  Do you know why this happens and how to fix it? It's
> really hard to read |  the text in terminal. | |  Thank you and
> regards, |  Hung
> 
> 

I am not sure is that issue in that screenshot font issue, but if it
is, I recommend using DejaVu Sans Mono. It should contain most of
UTF-8 chars.

PS. 紳癒礁湖, please don't toppost as asked by Ubuntu Mailing lists
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