Unicode (was Re: Updating ncurses in base)
Scott Robbins
scottro at nyc.rr.com
Mon Jun 26 13:09:33 UTC 2006
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On Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 11:58:40AM +0200, Alexander Leidinger wrote:
> Quoting "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd at over-yonder.net> (from Sun, 25 Jun
> 2006 20:49:39 -0500):
>
>
> At the time I switched to UTF-8 I was using xterm too. It dodn't worked as
> expected. I noticed that there's "uxterm" (installed with xterm). I tried
> it and I think it was a little bit better than plain xterm itself. But
> maybe it just defaults to what you did by hand above.
>
Th
> I was not satisified and switched to the gnome terminal. It works without
> problems for me (but I didn't tried the example you tried).
>
> Summary: maybe most people just use something else in case they need/want
> UTF-8, and they don't bother to fight with xterm because they just want
> something which works. So don't be surprised if this is a bug in xterm.
>
I believe uxterm is xterm with luit scripts (I don't know enough about
this to be sure, however.)
I'm one of the people who use something else, switching between urxvt
(rxvt-unicode) and mlterm.
I think you are correct however--being involved on various Japanese
language lists, I would say the majority of people don't even bother
with xterm if they want UTF-8.
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