Hi,
At Fri, 31 Aug 2001 23:15:20 +0100 (BST),
Markus Kuhn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The -u8 was a temporary hack needed 2 years ago before glibc 2.2 with
> UTF-8 locale support was around. It is obsolete now, except on other
> operating systems (namely: FreeBSD) that still didn't have UTF-8 locales
> last time I checked. If you set the locale, then not only xterm but also
> all processes started inside will be informed that you want UTF-8. That's
> much neater as it replaces zillions of command line options to activate a
> separate UTF-8 mode for each single tool.
True. Once a user set LANG variable, he/she should not need any more
specification of language and encoding. This is a (part of) idea of
locale.
XTerm started to support locale partially - only UTF-8 locales.
Further improvement will be discussed.
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Tomohiro KUBOTA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
http://www.debian.or.jp/~kubota/
"Introduction to I18N" http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/intro-i18n/
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Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels
Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
