UXTERM FONT MANUAL

The uxterm script selects the latter at startup using the -class option, but as described in the manual page, xterm will automatically select the utf8Fonts at startup based on the locale settings. There is more than one app-defaults file because that seemed a simpler solution than the utf8Fonts arrangement. But they have only 192 characters (256 - 64 control characters), while the bitmap UTF-8 fonts have thousands. Those short names are (as detailed in xterm cannot load font) aliases for ISO-8859-1 fonts, which (unsuprisingly given the history of UTF-8) have the same appearance as the UTF-8 fonts. Just reading the XTerm app-defaults file, most users would not notice that the non-UTF-8 fonts given here look something like the UTF-8 fonts: *VT100.font1: nil2 Here is the content from the XTerm app-defaults file: *2: -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal-8-80-75-75-c-50-iso10646-1

The app-defaults files XTerm and UXTerm have both of these, but in the latter, those Unicode fonts are not inside the utf8Fonts layer.

utf8Fonts.font, etc., are Unicode fonts.

, font6 are the conventional fonts dating back to X11R4.

Uxterm font