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Re: Hello world in UTF-8/X11

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Subject: Re: Hello world in UTF-8/X11
From: Abigail Brady <morwen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 16 Jan 2003 20:42:25 +0000
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On Thu, 2003-01-16 at 20:09, . wrote:
> Sorry to insist, but I've seen that the venerable xterm solves the problem with
> only one C code file, xutf8.c, that enables it to work properly with the "-u8"
> option, so I think it's possible to do it. I simply don't understand that code.

Xterm only works with a small subset of Unicode, namely
Latin/Cyrillic/Modern Greek, CJK, Thai/Lao, and quite a number of minor
scripts.  It's not capable of displaying arbritrary text.

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References:
- Hello world in UTF-8/X11
  - From: Manel de la Rosa
- Re: Hello world in UTF-8/X11
  - From: Bruno Haible
- Re: Hello world in UTF-8/X11
  - From: .

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