On 11/2/07, Juan Miscaro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- Paul Irofti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 11:22:53AM -0400, Nick Guenther wrote: > > > On 11/1/07, Juan Miscaro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hi gang. > > > > > > > > Is there any priority for having OpenBSD support UTF8? > > > > > > > > // peter > > > > > > utf-8 isn't an OS-level thing. You need to do it in every app. > > > Googling, the first result brings up > > > http://osdir.com/ml/os.openbsd.ports/2004-02/msg00376.html as an > > > example. > > > > > > > The sad thing is that the man pages don't mention that OpenBSD's libc > > doesn't quite support locale, multibyte/wide char conversions thus > > Unicode. > > > > E.g. if you look at mbstowcs(3) you'd say: okay, I can use that... > > but > > looking at the code behind it you'll see its a pure stab that does a > > simple memcpy from chars to ints (or wchar_ts as they modernly call > > it > > in C99). > > > To get back to the practical nature of my original request, if someone > can let me know how to write French characters in a terminal (via an > SSH connection) I would be very grateful. I would like to use a > terminal emulator that uses UTF8 and I believe xterm does this but I > can't find an OpenBSD package (or port) for it.
xterm comes with OpenBSD. just run 'xterm' You could try rxvt (which is in packages) if that doesn't work for some reason. -Nick
