On Monday, 28 June 2004, at 14:28:39 (-0400),
Bradley Reed wrote:

> I use Eterm in Slackware which dropped enlightenment and Eterm long ago.

Well, Slackware's a whole different ballgame.  I'll spare you my
Slackware rant. :-)

> I can see SUSE's point. More and more distros are supporting UTF-8
> and need UTF-8 support in their terminal emulators. Distros are not
> just for western European languages anymore. People do want to type
> in Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, etc.

I understand that.  Of course, Eterm has supported Japanese, Chinese,
and Korean for some time now.  Just not UTF-8.

I don't really know much about UTF-8 and iconv().  A few people have
offered to write a patch, but no one actually has.  So any help is
greatly appreciated!

> Eterm development does seem a bit stagnant. Is CVS still unchanged
> since the 0.9.2 release last year? That at least is the implication
> on www.eterm.org.

I do need to update that damned box. :(

> ((I see browsing cvs that there have been a few changes, one on June
> 25th, one in May, a few in April, but it does seem like development
> is not really active))

My attention has been focused more on work, cAos, and Mezzanine.
0.9.3 will be out real soon though.

> Perhaps you need to express to them how Eterm is better than the
> xTerms they are keeping. Of course that may be hard without UTF-8
> support.

Patches welcome!  Requested, in fact!  Even begged for! :)

Michael

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n + 1, Inc., http://www.nplus1.net/       Author, Eterm (www.eterm.org)
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