Integrating Rxvt's
Hi,
Debian has two Rxvt packages (rxvt and rxvt-ml) and multiple
binaries in them (rxvt, krxvt, crxvt-gb, crxvt-big5, and grxvt).
Thus, for example, Chinese users have to learn to install rxvt-ml
and to use crxvt-* instead of rxvt.
I have an idea that Rxvt checks the current LC_CTYPE locale and
sets proper encoding and fonts automatically. This will enable
a single "world version" binary, which doesn't require users to
have special knowledge (like using crxvt-gb instead of rxvt).
By this, not only eastern Asian multibyte encodings but also
non-ISO8859-1 8bit encodings such as ISO-8859-2 and KOI8-R are
also supported (i.e., proper fonts are automatically choosen for
these encodings). (I have just become aware aterm-ml has Thai
support.) I think such a work should be done in the upstream level.
I just started a discussion by posting a mail with a patch to
CVS version of Rxvt in rxvt-workers mailing list. I encourage
people who are interested in to subscribe it, test my patch,
and join the discussion. (I need a help on default font settings
for non-Japanese languages, especially Chinese (simplified and
traditional), Korean, and Russian.)
rxvt-workers information: http://www.rxvt.org/
My mail (including patch) to rxvt-workers is available by sending
an empty mail to rxvt-workers-get.443_443@rxvt.org
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Tomohiro KUBOTA <kubota@debian.org>
http://surfchem0.riken.go.jp/~kubota/
"Introduction to I18N"
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/intro-i18n/
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