Re: Bug#638838: ITP: cocot -- Wraps and converts charset encoding of program input/output.

[Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>]

* Taisuke Yamada <tai@rakugaki.org>, 2011-08-20, 15:29:
> * Package name    : cocot
>  Version         : 20100903
>  Upstream Author : IWAMURO Motonori <vmi@nifty.com>
> * URL             : http://vmi.jp/software/cygwin/cocot.html
> * License         : BSD
>  Programming Lang: C
>  Description     : Wraps and converts charset encoding of program input/output.
>
> Cocot stands for "COde COnverter on Tty".
> This tool wraps specified program and converts charset encoding of its 
> input/output. By this conversion, cocot allows you to run any program 
> that may not support tty charset encoding. For example, running 
> non-UTF-8 editor on UTF-8 terminal.

How is it better than luit (from x11-utils)?

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Jakub Wilk