Timeline for How to change fonts picked by Terminal.app to display languages other than English?
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| Apr 15, 2013 at 15:48 | comment | added | ismail | sdmeyers, I'll iTerm a try. Used it long time ago, but fell back to shipped Terminal.app. Maybe it is time again to move to another Terminal App. | |
| Apr 15, 2013 at 15:47 | comment | added | ismail | Chris, thanks for the clarification. Exactly what I was looking for, that "fallback" mechanism and if it can be altered/hacked to cherry pick desired fonts. | |
| Apr 15, 2013 at 13:33 | comment | added | Chris Page | Whatever font you choose, the OS X font system automatically looks for any missing glyphs in a "fallback" font. The behavior should be the same for all applications. Terminal doesn't do anything special in this regard. As far as I am aware, there is a single fallback font and no supported means for users to choose another one. ismail Your best bet is to install a monospaced Arabic font that contains the glyphs you want. | |
| Apr 15, 2013 at 12:19 | comment | added | sdmeyers | Terminal.app only uses the one display font you select for it. Have you tried iTerm instead of Terminal? (iterm.sourceforge.net) It will allow you to choose a secondary font, presumably for exactly this reason. | |
| Apr 15, 2013 at 11:43 | comment | added | ismail | Unfortunately, that doesn't answer the question. Thanks for the vim arabic page. Been through that already, and compiled a version of vim with Arabic support. Tried MacVim as well. My question is about picking up fonts for certain scripts when characters are not available in the current font. | |
| Apr 15, 2013 at 11:37 | history | answered | sdmeyers | CC BY-SA 3.0 |