Michael Sobolev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > As for the UTF-8, I do not know whether UTF-8 is well supported by other > programs. So, it's too early to use it, I believe.
Perhaps it's appropriate to ask these general questions here: Which programs do support UTF-8? Which programs are a nuisance because they don't support UTF-8? Is there any simple way under Debian to read UTF-8 e-mail that contains a mixture of Russian and Hungarian (or any other pair for which there is no standard 8-bit character set)? I can provide one fairly uninteresting answer: on the Linux console you can read a web page containing a wacky mixture of alphabets as follows: $ consolechars -f LatArCyrHeb-16.psf $ unicode_start $ lynx http://www.esperanto.mv.ru/KompLeks/UTF8/LI.html#LITEROJ-CIRILAJ But you have to have the "display character set" set to UTF-8. (Press "o"; lynx updates your .lynxrc for you if you ask.) If you're reading a local file, add -assume_local_charset=utf-8 to the lynx command. The kernel's treatment of Unicode on the console has some bugs (see my patch at http://www.rano.demon.co.uk/kernel_patch/003) and apparently there's still the line discipline to sort out. If anyone can tell me how to get a UTF-8 xterm or equivalent, I'd be interested ... Edmund
