Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2006 15:56:17 -0600 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Andrew Pantyukhin <infofarmer@freebsd.org> Cc: frdp@freebsd.org.ua, FreeBSD Questions <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: On-the-fly auto charset conversion or something Message-ID: <20061217215617.GG43992@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <cb5206420612171043u612830f0labdd0c23c7fe1a46@mail.gmail.com> References: <cb5206420612171043u612830f0labdd0c23c7fe1a46@mail.gmail.com>
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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. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com
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