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LANG=zh_CN xterm -u8 -fn -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--0-0-75-75-c-0-iso10646-1 -e luit &

or,

LANG=zh_CN xterm -u8 -fn -misc-zysong18030-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso10646-1 -e luit &

LANG=zh_CN xterm -u8 -fn '-arphic technology co.-ar pl kaitim gb-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso10646-1' -e luit &
LANG=zh_CN xterm -u8 -fn '-arphic technology co.-ar pl kaitim big5-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-c-0-iso10646-1' -e luit &

then

date

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misc-zysong18030-…-c-0-iso10646-1 (almost?) has all charaters, but the English charaters take up double spce. awful!

Trying History

No effect

xterm is still normal size.

LANG=zh_TW xterm -u8 -fn -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--0-0-75-75-c-0-iso10646-1 -e luit &

— couldn't find charset data for locale zh_TW; using ISO 8859-1.

No Chinese fonts shown

xterm is double width.

LANG=zh_TW xterm -u8 -fn '-arphic technology co.-ar pl mingti2l big5-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-c-0-iso10646-1' -e luit &
LANG=zh_TW xterm -u8 -fn '-arphic technology co.-ar pl kaitim big5-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-c-0-iso10646-1' -e luit &

— couldn't find charset data for locale zh_TW; using ISO 8859-1.

No any fonts shown

xterm is double width.

LANG=zh_TW.Big5 xterm -u8 -fn -taipei-fixed-medium-r-normal--0-0-75-75-c-0-big5-0 -e luit &