So, I've just spent some time working on one of the biggest deficiencies 
in 0.70.0-beta1: Unicode support.

For blackbox users:

This means that blackbox is on EWMH compliant, and exchanges strings 
with EWMH compliant applications/utilites in UTF-8.  If you use the 
right fonts, you should see any Unicode character you want.  For 
example, take a look at 
http://trolls.troll.no/bhughes/blackbox/blackbox-unicode.png

For libbt users:

The API has changed slightly from beta1.  There is now bt/Unicode.hh, 
which includes some nice functions to convert from the user's locale to 
Unicode and back.  In addition, you can convert from Unicode to UTF-8 
and back, but you should rarely need this.  A new Unicode string type 
has also been introduced: bt::ustring, which is used for any string 
that can be displayed on screen.

Questions/comments/flames are more than welcome. :)

-- 
Bradley T. Hughes - bhughes at trolltech.com
Trolltech AS - Waldemar Thranes gt. 98 N-0175 Oslo, Norway

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