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How to configure Xterm for UTF-8?

hmmm... I was not sure where to post this! I want emit non-ascii chinese and ciryllic text. I'm running windows server 2003 with cygwin xfree86.

I know I have one font that can render chinese and russian: "Arial Unicode MS".

How can I configure my cygwin xterm so I can emit russian and chinese?

Below is the response I got from the beginners perl group.
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Siegfried

>> Can someone point me to an example of a little program that emits
>> non-ascii Unicode characters (Russian or Chinese perhaps)? The unicode
>> Russian/Cyrillic alphabet starts at 0x410.
>
>perl -wle '
> print qq[\x{410}];
>'
>
>(change all the ' to " if you shell needs that)
>
>Of course, your terminal needs to be in UTF8-mode and have access to the necessary fonts.
>

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Arial is not really suitable for xterm because it wants a fixed-width font. On "real" X11 you can use xfontsel to find a suitable font; you want one which is fixed width and which uses the iso10646 registry but I don't know if you can find one which actually supports both Russian and Chinese glyphs. See also Marcus Kuhn's UTF8 FAQ at UTF-8 and Unicode FAQ

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