On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 11:09:57AM -0500, Mike A. Harris wrote: > Would it be sensible and acceptable to have xterm default to > using the encoding of the user's locale at startup? Seems to be > several ways of forcing UTF-8 to on, however I'm curious why it > doesn't just detect the locale by default and use UTF-8 if in a > .UTF-8 locale.
I've heard the same discussion on KDE lists. And as on KDE the point is that the whole system has to be utf-8 to work correctly. Its news to me that a locale can specify that its utf-8, since I always thought that locales don't define encodings. That said; there certainly needs to be one check for the whole system since its impossible to just have 10% in utf8. KDE does this by inventing its own variable (KDE_UTF8_FILENAMES=yes) which a distro can then use when switching their new version to utf8. I believe a similar solution would be in place for the xterm and similar applications for tha very simple reason that a whole system needs to be utf-8 or not at all. i.e. something a distro has to decide when cooking its newest version. -- Thomas Zander _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
