On Wed, Aug 14, 2019 at 05:26:16PM -0500, David Wright wrote: [...]
> You're welcome to use anything from > https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2019/07/msg00926.html Nice post, thanks for it -- I must have missed it at a moment of high load. > Most of the methods I see posted have limitations (like non-VC). > > [1] > > https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/185349/is-there-a-universal-way-to-write-unicode-characters ...and this is surely one. It works for Gtk+ applications (doh, I think it's spelt Gtk these days?), it doesn't for plain X, much less for the Linux VC. Dunno about Qt. This is indeed a sad situation. Debian goes to some lengths to unify X and the VCs -- whereas all the "user-experience-y" GUIs out there seem to go out of their way to break as much as they can -- as if they were competitors for market share. I guess some anti-patterns are just hard to unlearn. In this context I've to thank you, David, for your heroic effort, and thanks for writing so nicely about it! Cheers -- tomás
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