Re: debian and the linux-unicode HOWTO
Frederic Seraphine <Frederic.Seraphine@inrialpes.fr>:
> I just read the linux-UNICODE HOWTO to try to enable the unicode and utf8
> support and I wonders how I can fit it with debian.
>
> I reckon that as it needs a glibc 2.2, muy only choice is to use
> unstable/sid. But as to configuration, choice of packages, is there a
> roadmap or somewhere I can't find the information ?
It depends exactly what you want to do.
I use Debian 2.2, but with UTF-8 xterms, Mutt with UTF-8 as its
charset, and Emacs configured to work in UTF-8.
I installed Mutt and the latest xterm from source, but I'm using the
normal Emacs from Debian 2.2.
The alternative to using glibc-2.2 is to use Bruno Haible's libutf8,
which works fine for me. In fact, ISTR that the released glibc-2.2 has
a bug which Bruno's libutf8 doesn't have.
The main thing I don't have for all-round Unicode support is the
latest X. I can only enter non-ascii characters by using Emacs's input
methods, and copy and paste with the mouse tends not to work between
different programs, though it does work between two xterms or within
Emacs, or if you're only copying ascii, of course.
Edmund
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