svn commit: r186731 - head/sys/dev/syscons/teken

[Ivan Voras]

2009/1/5 Ed Schouten <ed at 80386.nl>:
> Hello David,
>
> * David O'Brien <obrien at freebsd.org> wrote:
>> Why xterm and not vt100?
>
> The reason I'm proposing xterm, is because it is the best supported
> terminal type out there. Example: if we would use TERM=vt100, we would
> only get black & white. If we use TERM=vt100-color, we do get the
> colors, but unfortunately we won't be compatible with other operating
> systems. Solaris, for example, has no termtype called vt100-color. This
> means the user has to change TERM by hand.
>
> TERM=xterm has proven to be very portable across different operating
> systems and there are a lot of other pieces of software that try to
> mimic it. At least the Terminal application in OS X, GNOME's
> gnome-terminal, maybe KDE's Konsole as well.
>
> I hope that answers your question?

Also, isn't xterm better suited for UTF-8?