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I use Ubuntu Mono font in xterm terminal and, to my regret, there are no glyphs for some useful unicode characters such as scissors (2702) or some superscript and subscript symbols. Fortunately, Monospace has these glyphs. Is there an opportunity to configure fallback font(s) to catch missing glyphs in xterm? If not, can I merge Ubuntu Mono and Monospace to one font? Nowadays, I have next configuration.

XTerm*faceName: Ubuntu Mono
XTerm*faceSize: 12

It seems separating faceName value with comma does not work.

Martin Tournoij
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Evgeniy
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    Possibly this: [command-line-tool-for-merging-fonts-files](http://softwarerecs.stackexchange.com/questions/13380/command-line-tool-for-merging-fonts-files). – Thomas Dickey Dec 31 '16 at 01:52
  • As far as I can figure out, it's not possible to define a fallback font for xterm. You could use another terminal emulator or use a trick such as the one suggested by Thomas Dickey to create a new font file with all the glyphs you need. – Håken Lid Jan 05 '17 at 17:56
  • You are right. Xterm, unfortunately, unlike gnome-terminal, does not use any other fonts for missing glyphs. – Evgeniy Jan 06 '17 at 13:10

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Since patch #338 in late 2018, xterm supports TrueType fallback fonts. No change was needed to user's configuration.

Thomas Dickey
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