[SlugLUG] unicode fonts in terminal

[Suraj N. Kurapati]

Erich Blume wrote:
> Secondly, what is a good console font to use that not only supports UTF-8,
> but actually employs a lot of it? I mean, not just sygils and accents, but a
> LOT of stuff such as, er, Japanese (I can never keep the names of the
> different character sets straight), and Arabic (same deal). I never use
> these, of course, but I'd like to at least have the *option*.

I use the default "monospace" font with gnome-terminal in Ubuntu and
the Unicode languages magically appear when necessary.

gnome-terminal uses Pango without support for more complex languages
(Indian scripts, Thai, etc.) for speed reasons (or so they say...).
Apart from these languages, the CJK and European languages are
rendered correctly in their full glory.

If you need to work with Indian scripts, like I do, you're stuck
with adapting to the broken rendering in gnome-terminal or using a
GTK+2 file manager (rox, nautilus, firefox, etc.) to have the
languages rendered correctly.