[xge@ics.uci.edu: update: rxvt-utf8/rxvt-multibyte]

[Tung-Han Hsieh <thhsieh@twcpro.phys.ntu.edu.tw>]

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From: Xianping Ge <xge@ics.uci.edu>
Subject: update: rxvt-utf8/rxvt-multibyte
Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2000 20:05:16 -0700

Hi,

I've patched rxvt2.7.3 for multibyte encodings like UTF-8, GBK, Big5, etc.
(Of course rxvt2.7.3 with MULTICHAR_SET already works for GBK, Big5, etc.,
 but not UTF-8.)

What's new:
    Use #define MULTIBYTE_CHAR to enable the patch. For example,
    ./configure  --enable-multibyte-char

    For UTF-8, the Unifont is used:
    rxvt -fn '-gnu-unifont-medium-r-normal--16-160-75-75-c-80-iso10646-1'

URLs:
  patch:
    http://www.ics.uci.edu/~xge/clinux/rxvt/rxvt2.7.3-multibyte.patch

  rxvt2.7.3-multibyte.tar.gz:
    http://www.ics.uci.edu/~xge/clinux/rxvt/rxvt2.7.3-multibyte.tar.gz

  Unifont: Unicode-encoded fonts:
    http://czyborra.com/unifont/

    http://www.ics.uci.edu/~xge/clinux/xgeunifont.pcf.gz 
    (with my favoriate fonts added.)

TO DO:
  1. debug: lots of bugs inside to be killed!

  2. Write functions for UTF-8, GBK, etc to return a character's width
     (in columns).

  3. For Big5 etc., it's a waste of space to use 16-bit for all characters
     including ASCII characters. It's possible to exploit the fact that
     2 byte == 2 columns, so we can still use 8-bit per column for Big5 etc.

For more information, see 
    http://www.ics.uci.edu/~xge/clinux/rxvt/00README

Suggestions, bug fixes, improvements are welcome.

 -- Xianping
  xge@ics.uci.edu

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