Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 08:41:58 -0400 From: Scott Robbins <scottro@nyc.rr.com> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Unicode (was Re: Updating ncurses in base) Message-ID: <20060626124158.GA7801@mail.scottro.net> In-Reply-To: <20060626115840.vrmox3wo0gg08gog@netchild.homeip.net> References: <6eb82e0606091906j7d9f69aarcf1f9738c7565677@mail.gmail.com> <20060625221640.GI48766@linwhf.opal.com> <20060626014939.GA74292@over-yonder.net> <20060626115840.vrmox3wo0gg08gog@netchild.homeip.net>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 11:58:40AM +0200, Alexander Leidinger wrote: > Quoting "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@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. - -- Scott Robbins PGP keyID EB3467D6 ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 EB34 67D6 ) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6 Xander: Oh, hey, do you want to come to our place for dinner? Mom's making her famous phone call to the Chinese place. Willow: Xander, do you guys even have a stove? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFEn9YW+lTVdes0Z9YRAlutAJ9titRWZqLZsUb8OZR/NZM0ITXbnACggmlS RJ5TpaIutednvieYCKtSk+I= =Q5cQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20060626124158.GA7801>