Re: Dumb question about unicode
On Sun, 29 Oct 2006, cothrige wrote:
> Okay, I really am an idiot when it comes to unicode. More than that
> if you ask my wife. But, I have been wondering why I need unicode at
> all? I never used it, knowingly, before Debian but I noticed that it
> is apparently the default now. So, some apps are acting funny and I
> am wondering if I absolutely need to keep unicode support as default,
> and if not, how can I change it?
>
> My main trouble is mrxvt, which does not have unicode support. If I
> run mutt in that terminal, which is my favorite, it will not draw the
> trees right. Instead of nice little lines and arrows, it now produces
> junk looking characters. Very ugly indeed. In the past it always
> looked fine, without any unicode stuff, and now it is not so nice.
> There is a workaround given at the mrxvt site which sometimes works,
> depending on how I invoke the terminal, but it is awkward at best and
> is not consistent in its results. And so I am wondering how essential
> or needed unicode is, and if not completely essential, how do I change
> to something else?
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Patrick
>
>
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One reason for it is to display e-mails correctly in pine, mind you, it
needs to be patched and configured with UTF8 support and you need to run
xterm -u8 but then at least e-mails written in the UTF8 charset look
correct :)
Justin.
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