Hello, Does luit support the encodings that do not compatible with iso-2022? For example GB18030?
Regards James Su Tomohiro KUBOTA wrote: >Hi, > >XFree86 4.2 has been released. Thus, I'd like to start an improvement >of xterm to invoke luit, so that xterm will obey the current LC_CTYPE >locale not only when it is one of UTF-8 locales but also when it is >one of various major locales (which luit supports). > >My idea is: > - adding "-lc" command line option and "locale" resource (boolean) > to specify whether luit will be invoked or not. > - luit will be invoked only when locale is other than "C", "POSIX", > or UTF-8. > - when luit will be invoked, xterm will be need to be UTF-8 mode. > This will be done automatically. > - "xterm -e ..." has to work well even with luit. > - A new sample resource file "XTerm-locale.ad" will be supplied. > - manual page will need explanation of this new feature. > >If nobody is working on this so far, I'd like to develop this and >to send a patch to XFree86 finally. > >Items which need further discussion: > - emulate doublewidth de-facto standard for east Asian encodings > (using http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/scw-proposal.html ?) > - luit to support more encodings > (http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/2001-11/msg00093.html) > - whether xterm or luit will support BiDi or not. Usage of fribidi > may have license problem (like Robert Brady's patch). > >However, my work above will be able to be started without waiting >for conclusions of these discussions. > >Any comments? > >--- >Tomohiro KUBOTA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >http://www.debian.or.jp/~kubota/ >"Introduction to I18N" http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/intro-i18n/ >_______________________________________________ >I18n mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/i18n > > _______________________________________________ I18n mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/i18n
