--- Paul Irofti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 11:22:53AM -0400, Nick Guenther wrote:
> > On 11/1/07, Juan Miscaro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Hi gang.
> > >
> > > Is there any priority for having OpenBSD support UTF8?
> > >
> > > // peter
> >
> > utf-8 isn't an OS-level thing. You need to do it in every app.
> > Googling, the first result brings up
> > http://osdir.com/ml/os.openbsd.ports/2004-02/msg00376.html as an
> > example.
> >
>
> The sad thing is that the man pages don't mention that OpenBSD's libc
> doesn't quite support locale, multibyte/wide char conversions thus
> Unicode.
>
> E.g. if you look at mbstowcs(3) you'd say: okay, I can use that...
> but
> looking at the code behind it you'll see its a pure stab that does a
> simple memcpy from chars to ints (or wchar_ts as they modernly call
> it
> in C99).
To get back to the practical nature of my original request, if someone
can let me know how to write French characters in a terminal (via an
SSH connection) I would be very grateful. I would like to use a
terminal emulator that uses UTF8 and I believe xterm does this but I
can't find an OpenBSD package (or port) for it.
// juan
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