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Con Unicode characters that are too wide are blanked instead of clipped
If a character in a backup font is wider than the base font, urxvt substitutes the non-displayable character. A large letter space will show the wide characters, but the result is not reasonably spaced. There is a patch from 2014 that the urxvt maintainer will not merge.
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Pro
Highly configurable via .XResourcesPro
Incredibly fastPro
Low memory usagePro
Supports multiple font typesPro
Fast text renderingPro
Minimum dependencies and simple text configPro
High performancePro
Built-in Perl interpreterPro
Handles bold text colour properlyCon
Requires work to look acceptableCon
No support yet for 24-bit "True Color"Con
Unicode characters that are too wide are blanked instead of clippedCon
Unicode rendering is buggyComments
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Pro Low memory usage
Rxvt-unicode uses very little memory and takes a lightweight approach without losing many important functionalities. A single instance of urxvt takes about 6.5MB-8MB of RAM.