On Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 07:29:04AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Thu, 22 Apr 2004, Thomas Dickey wrote: > > > It really sounds as if you are running into more/less expected problems > > with applications (not particularly xterm) that do not work with UTF-8. > Sure - as I said my belover MC is one of them. BUt I wanted to give > the transition a start, once Debian changelogs start loocking fancy on > my side because of UTF-8 codings. > > > For instance, I see that the Debian package for mc is built using the > > internal version of slang (and to satisfy some issue with gpm, also > > ncurses - which can be confusing). > Yes. Also manpages loocked strange but I suspected that it is connected > to the xterm problems, but I'm not sure.
Such as the soft-hyphens at the ends of lines (that's partly a font problem, partly how the pager is setup). For the font, since it was an 8859 (8-bit) font, codes past 255 would show up as missing glyphs. > > While there is an unofficial patch for slang to handle UTF-8, I'm told > > that it is incomplete and not very robust. Without that patch, slang > > can handle only 8-bit encodings (such as the ISO-8859-1 to ISO-8859-15). > > In UTF-8, the characters in the range 160-255 are not sent as a single > > byte but as two or more. If the application does not know how to do > > this, the terminal running in UTF-8 mode is likely to treat those as > > incomplete sequences and doesn't show the characters that were intended. > Well I just regard my first attempt to switch to UTF-8 as failed and > went back to my normal work, waiting for further enhancements. On the > other hand I think we should clarify why the resource setting of > > *utf8: 2 > > differs from -u8 command line option. If I understand the manual right > this should not be the case. I'll take another look this afternoon. It occurs to me that your environment was perhaps the UTF-8 flavor rather than the euro one, and that some part of the gdm/xrdb/X11 code may treat the resource setting differently. > Kind regards > > Andreas. -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net
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