From 4826c4349d057d8343a5ccdd50c5b76a326844e4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: ZyX Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2014 18:30:34 +0400 Subject: [PATCH] Update documentation regarding xterm Closes #420 --- docs/source/troubleshooting/linux.rst | 10 +++++++++- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/docs/source/troubleshooting/linux.rst b/docs/source/troubleshooting/linux.rst index 425fa02f..9b3a5113 100644 --- a/docs/source/troubleshooting/linux.rst +++ b/docs/source/troubleshooting/linux.rst @@ -11,8 +11,16 @@ I can’t see any fancy symbols, what’s wrong? a UTF-8 locale (e.g. ``LANG=en_US.utf8``). Consult your Linux distro’s documentation for information about setting these variables correctly. * Make sure that vim is compiled with the ``--with-features=big`` flag. -* If you’re using rxvt-unicode, make sure that it’s compiled with the +* If you’re using rxvt-unicode make sure that it’s compiled with the ``--enable-unicode3`` flag. +* If you’re using xterm make sure you have told it to work with unicode. You may + need ``-u8`` command-line argument, ``uxterm`` shell wrapper that is usually + shipped with xterm for this or ``xterm*utf8`` property set to ``1`` or ``2`` + in ``~/.Xresources`` (applied with ``xrdb``). Note that in case ``uxterm`` is + used configuration is done via ``uxterm*…`` properties and not ``xterm*…``. + + In any case the only absolute requirement is launching xterm with UTF-8 + locale. The fancy symbols look a bit blurry or “off”! ---------------------------------------------