Updated HOWTO

[Bruno Haible <haible@xxxxxxx>]

An updated version of the Linux Unicode-HOWTO is at
   ftp://ftp.ilog.fr/pub/Users/haible/utf8/Unicode-HOWTO.html

List of changes:

- Console fonts:
  - Mention Dmitry Yu. Bolkhovityanov's Unicode VGA font.

- X11 fonts:
  - Mention "xset -q" as a way to query the X server's font path.
  - Mention Markus Kuhn's asian UCS fonts.

- xterm:
  - Recommend xterm-146 or newer.
  - Change recommended resources to start with lowercase "xterm" (for KDE 2),
    and to include a wideFont and boldFont resource.

- TrueType fonts:
  - Note that the Cyberbit font is not free.
  - Update download location for Lucida Sans Unicode.
  - Mention the chinese Arphic fonts.
  - Add installation instructions for TrueType fonts and ttf2bdf.

- Misc:
  - x-lt is now in version 1.24.

- Remove the section about the kernel patch for ttys.

- C library:
  - Recommend glibc-2.2 instead of the various hacks that were necessary
    earlier.

- Shells:
  - Mention the bash patch by Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk and Ricardas Cepas.

- Browsers:
  - Some rudimentary UTF-8 support in Amaya.

- Editors:
  - yudit is now in version 2.1 but version 1.5 was better in several aspects.
    Updated its URL.
  - vim is now in version 6.0r and supports editing of files in different
    encodings (via iconv).
  - Mention cooledit, a Unicode capable editor with bidi support for Hebrew.
  - Add a few more words and screenshots about Emacs.
  - Mention that pico (pine 4.30) has no Unicode support.
  - Updated URL and feature list of mined.
  - Mention qemacs-0.2, it's promising.

- Mailers:
  - Talk about mutt-1.2 and 1.3.x.

- groff is now in version 1.16.1.

- lv is now in version 4.49.3.

- wc patch is integrated in GNU utils.

- Printing:
  - Mention txtbdf2ps.

- libiconv is now in version 1.5.1.

- recode is now in version 3.6.

- ICU is now in version 1.7.

- Describe Allegro Common Lisp 6.0's Unicode support.

- Describe Python 2.0's Unicode support.

- Mention Perl's iconv interface.

- Refer to Tomohiro Kubota's i18n introduction.

This HOWTO is called version 1.0, because things got much easier to
install with the advent of glibc 2.2.

I'd invite all of you to send me (or the list) small notes about new
package releases that work in UTF-8 locales or (even better) in all
multibyte locales. I can hardly keep up with evaluating every new
package release - so many new releases every month :-) -, and can
therefore well use some help from you.

Bruno
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