On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 05:05:10AM +0200, Shaul Karl wrote: > There has to be a standard way to at least have basic unix utils like grep, > ed, diff and friends to work on files with multi lingual contents and still > have a reasonable user interface and means to display their output.
diff and grep work on UTF-8 files just fine. If you need to display a result that can't be displayed in a console or xterm, you use a GUI program to display the text. Just like if you were working on PNM files with the NetPNM tools. Look, the current terminal emulator standards just can't handle sufficently complex scripts. It's a system designed for charcell fonts with a one to one character to glyph correspondence. There's only so much that can be hacked onto it, and scripts that require shaping are generally considered outside that. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pointless website: http://dvdeug.dhis.org When the aliens come, when the deathrays hum, when the bombers bomb, we'll still be freakin' friends. - "Freakin' Friends"
