Re: Linux Console in UTF-8 - current state

[kaih@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Kai Henningsen)]

hpa@xxxxxxxxx (H. Peter Anvin)  wrote on 11.09.02 in <alo451$s1p$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

> Followup to:  <Pine.LNX.4.44js.0209111438050.2609-100000@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> By author:    Jungshik Shin <jshin@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> In newsgroup: linux.utf8
> >
> > > Reinventing Xterm is more like it.  One of the ideas that has come up
> > > is to write such a console daemon so that it could also run in an X
> > > window, which would give us something we right now sorely lack -- a
> > > consistent terminal in a window and on the console.
> >
> >   Did you mean 'iterm' briefly mentioned by Redovan in this thread?
> > On xfree86-i18n list,  Hideki Hiura gave the details at
> >
> > http://www.xfree86.org/pipermail/i18n/2002-August/003405.html
> >
>
> This looks promising.

I find I'm somewhat doubtful about a software author who claims UTF-8  
xterm is "hardwired to specific languages", is a "locale specific terminal  
emulator", and is not "truly internationalized".

Sounds to me like "let's reinvent the square wheel" territory.

MfG Kai
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