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Added more details and a concrete example to the X resources method.
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alexei
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Solutions from the comments:

  • uxterm
  • CtrlRightClick (context menu) and UTF-8 encoding.
  • xterm -u8
  • X resources: use a font specification with character set and econding fields set to -iso10646-1

For X Window experts: pass a font specification with “-iso10646-1” afterexample, for xterm -fn (presumedlyX-class Xterm) and the Terminus font, you know wheremight add to ~/.Xresources

XTerm*font: -*-terminus-medium-r-normal--18-*-*-*-*-*-iso10646-1

To find it)the fonts and their font specs installed on your system see /usr/share/fonts/*/*.dir files. After editting ~/.Xresources, load them with xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources.

Solutions from the comments:

  • uxterm
  • CtrlRightClick (context menu) and UTF-8 encoding.
  • xterm -u8

For X Window experts: pass a font specification with “-iso10646-1” after xterm -fn (presumedly you know where to find it).

Solutions from the comments:

  • uxterm
  • CtrlRightClick (context menu) and UTF-8 encoding.
  • xterm -u8
  • X resources: use a font specification with character set and econding fields set to -iso10646-1

For example, for xterm (X-class Xterm) and the Terminus font, you might add to ~/.Xresources

XTerm*font: -*-terminus-medium-r-normal--18-*-*-*-*-*-iso10646-1

To find the fonts and their font specs installed on your system see /usr/share/fonts/*/*.dir files. After editting ~/.Xresources, load them with xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources.

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Incnis Mrsi
Incnis Mrsi
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Solutions from the comments:

  • uxterm
  • CtrlRightClick (context menu) and UTF-8 encoding.
  • xterm -u8

For X Window experts: pass a font specification with “-iso10646-1” after xterm -fn (presumedly you know where to find it).

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