Re: editing behaviour of ttys

[Bruno Haible <haible@ilog.fr>]

Hello Andries,

> I would like to have a plan, a goal to reach, and then work
> towards it in a long series of small steps.

The plan is that when a user appends ".UTF-8" to his LANG environment
variable and sets a few more settings in his .Xdefaults file, then all
programs automatically use and assume UTF-8 encoding for files and
character streams. Then in 10 years, we'll have forgotten about the
interoperation problems caused by the 8-bit encodings we use now, just
like we have forgotten about the ISO-646 variants that caused a lot of
grief 15 years ago.

> No - I am not running an xterm in UTF-8 mode.
> ...
> Maybe you can just point me towards some web page?

For the first UTF-8 experience, you'll need all of the following:

  - Markus Kuhn's 6x13 Unicode font, and some demo files in UTF-8 format
    http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/download/ucs-fonts.tar.gz

  - Thomas Dickey's xterm
    http://www.clark.net/pub/dickey/xterm/xterm.tar.gz

  - The HOWTO and related patches
    ftp://ftp.ilog.fr/pub/Users/haible/utf8.tgz

For some console fun, you also need

  - A console font which covers most European characters
    ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/keyboards/x-lt-1.18.tar.gz

Bruno
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