Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2009 18:46:42 +0100 From: "Ivan Voras" <ivoras@freebsd.org> To: "Ed Schouten" <ed@80386.nl> Cc: svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r186731 - head/sys/dev/syscons/teken Message-ID: <9bbcef730901050946q64b59c9bvc0a5b587b2e7bb11@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20090105172243.GO14235@hoeg.nl> References: <200901040020.n040KIcc041121@svn.freebsd.org> <20090104120434.GF93900@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua> <20090104121331.GC14235@hoeg.nl> <20090105171523.GC50568@dragon.NUXI.org> <20090105172243.GO14235@hoeg.nl>
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2009/1/5 Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl>: > Hello David, > > * David O'Brien <obrien@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?
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