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Re: xterm(229-1) does not accept "-u8"
- From: neomjp <neomjp at yahoo dot co dot jp>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2007 21:59:50 +0900 (JST)
- Subject: Re: xterm(229-1) does not accept "-u8"
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
On 2007/08/23 19:56, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> yes (but even if it's built to support UTF-8, cygwin has
very limited
> locale support - no UTF-8, except as noted a while back,
applications
> that have built-in locale support such as mined will
work).
Thank you for confirming this, Thomas. I read an debian-x
thread,
Bug#341686: xterm cannot be started in utf-8 mode by
default
http://lists.debian.org/debian-x/2005/12/msg00044.html
in which you discussed this xterm locale issue,
"xterm -xrm '*locale:false' -u8", and mined.
I understand that cygwin has limited support for locale,
but even so, many small utilities in cygwin packages can
work with UTF-8, such as sed, awk, perl, ruby, grep, cat,
head, tail, less(with LESSCHARSET="utf-8") and so on.
These are the things used very often
inside xterm, and that is when "-u8" is needed.
I will be glad if UTF-8 support is turned back on again,
maybe in future updates.
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