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Re: accented chars. shown as question marks in non-browser tools, sarge



H.S. <hs.samix@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thomas Dickey wrote:
>> H.S. <hs.samix@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Arlie Stephens wrote:
>> 
>>>> I've got the same basic problem with just about every tool I use,
>>>> notably my email client mutt. Other versions of linux have somehow
>> 
>>> Do you use mutt in xterm? If so, it will be very difficult to get this 
>>> right. Try this:
>> 
>> yawn (it requires reading the manpage, or using the uxterm script).

> I was helping a friend setup his system with Indic fonts with unicode 
> support some time ago (a few months). We couldn't get it working in 
> xterm but it was a breeze to get gnome-terminal and konsole working with 
> Indic fonts under UTF-8 locale. I recall at that time reading someplace 

that's a datapoint (pango's still incomplete, but it does try).

> that UTF-8 support for unicode is not complete in xterm. But I would 
> sure like to be corrected ... even would be glad since I use xterm on a 
> daily basis, especially when I am logged in remotely to my univ. machine.

>> xterm supports ANSI color, VT220 emulation and UTF-8
>> There's an faq at
>> 	http://invisible-island.net/xterm/xterm.faq.html

> I guess I am missing something here, the above page has no occurrence of 
> UTF in it.

making it easier:

	http://invisible-island.net/xterm/xterm.log.html

-- 
Thomas E. Dickey
http://invisible-island.net
ftp://invisible-island.net



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