Hi, Now I found that i18n-related patches are adopted into XFree86 CVS, including luit's patches.
Thus, I'd like to start discussion on improving XTerm to invoke luit to support various major encodings. I wrote a patch for XTerm to invoke luit. There are three encoding modes, where two of them are already available. 1. conventional 8bit (8bit encodings are supported by changing fonts) 2. UTF-8 (UTF-8 is supported) 3. UTF-8 with luit (various encodings are supported) To select these modes, I added three command options (-en, -lc, and -lcc) and two resources (locale and localefilter). Resource: locale (class Locale) "true" UTF-8 mode for UTF-8 locales and luit mode for all others. As a result, always obeys the current locale. "medium" UTF-8 mode for UTF-8 locales, luit mode for east Asian and Thai locales, and 8bit mode for all others. As a result, obeys the current locale in UTF-8, east Asian, and Thai locales. "false" UTF-8 mode for UTF-8 locales and 8bit mode for all others. Same as the current version of XTerm. other strings luit mode -- regarded as an encoding name and passed to luit. localeFilter (class LocaleFilter) specify the pathname of "luit". Command Line Options: -en encoding luit mode with specifying encoding (overriding locale). -lc UTF-8 mode for UTF-8 locales and luit mode for others. +lc UTF-8 mode for UTF-8 locales and 8bit mode for others. -lcc same as localeFilter resource. I believe that people in this mailing list don't oppose to the basic idea for XTerm to invoke luit in order to support various encodings. (luit was developed for this purpose.) However, I feel we need discussion on which mode should be the default behavior. If we don't need to think about backward compatibility, I think "locale: true" mode should be the default. However, if we think about compatibility, "locale: medium" or "locale: false" modes can be candidates. Please discuss on this point. Of course, other comments are also welcome. 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