Re: XFree86 4.0 is available

["T.E.Dickey" <dickey@xxxxxxxxx>]

> I would appreciate an option to adjust (center) all characters into a cell  
> of definable width - or of some reasonable default character width like  
> that of the letter m or W. I had suggested that to Thomas Dickey a while  
> ago but he was hesitating. Of course, the need to clip some characters  

mostly on the problem of finding time to implement.

> : Bruno has included a few things towards Xlib locale support of UTF-8, 
> : but I'll better leave it to him to describe the current status. Is it 
> : already good enough to allow us to remove the Unicode keyboard mapping 
> : from xterm again? 
> I would consider here what I had already argued for my editor - it's  
> always nice to be able to install certain basic software on legacy  
> systems as well. I would regret if I couldn't have a UTF-8 xterm any more  
> on an older system as I can now. 

agreed - otherwise we could only use it on the systems where we want also
to build the X libraries (that's more time/effort/space than I can do at work).
  
> Thomas Wolff 

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