On Sat, 6 Jul 2002, James K. Lowden wrote: > On Sat, 6 Jul 2002 22:37:37 +0100 (BST), "Andrew Ferrier" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> In fact, the more I think about this, the more I get confused. >> I can't seem to find any good introduction/references to all >> this stuff on the web. Does anyone know where I can go to learn >> more about character sets etc. these days? > [...] > Andrew, > > PMJI. You might want to have a look at http://czyborra.com/ Mr. Czyborra > has a pretty good overview of what's what regarding encoding and > character sets, and does a good job of distinguishing between fonts, > glyphs, and characters. You may in particular want to look at: > > http://czyborra.com/unicode/terminals.html
Interesting place. In particular, the -u8 option for xterm does exactly what Andrew wants. We should get Akira and Xing Wang to use their utf8 encodings for their names. -Lars -- Lars Clausen (http://shasta.cs.uiuc.edu/~lrclause)| H�rdgrim of Numenor "I do not agree with a word that you say, but I |---------------------------- will defend to the death your right to say it." | Where are we going, and --Evelyn Beatrice Hall paraphrasing Voltaire | what's with the handbasket? _______________________________________________ Dia-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list
