On-the-fly auto charset conversion or something

[Dan Nelson]

In the last episode (Dec 17), Andrew Pantyukhin said:
> I now have to work with several charsets simultaneously. Naturally, I
> use UTF-8 in xterm, but whenever I need to work with some exotic
> (8-bit mostly) charset, I have to resort to iconv(1), which is not
> very comfortable.
> 
> Does anyone have any idea of how to solve this problem? I'm thinking
> on-the-fly charset conversion, but I am prepared to reconsider my
> workflow habits and adopt some policies.

I think you can use the luit command to translate between other
character sets on a utf-8 terminal.

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	Dan Nelson
	dnelson at allantgroup.com