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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul-Kenji Cahier" <pkc@F1-Photo.com>
To: <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Sent: Friday, November 07, 2003 1:38 AM
Subject: terms


> Hello all,
> 
> I've been trying to make other terminals than rxvt work without the X
> server but without success yet... The problem of the rxvt that comes
> with cygwin is that as the original rxvt it doesnt support special
> charsets, and hence cant display correctly japanese characters, or
> chinese characters, or russian, etc. The alternative under linux would
> be to use either mlterm or rxvt-beta, mlterm being particularly useful
> as it allows multiple encoding in a same term.

I am using Simplified Chinese version of win2k and I put the following lines in my ~/.Xdefaults:
[code]
rxvt*font: fixedsys
rxvt*boldFont: fixedsys
rxvt*mfont: fixedsys
rxvt*multibyte_cursor:True
rxvt*multichar_encoding:big5
[/code]
then the rxvt windows shipped with cygwin can display Chinese characters correctly (just as notepad.exe).

However, if I change the rxvt*multichar_encoding line to gb, it cannot display correct gb2312 characters.  It is confusing...



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