On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 07:21:41AM -0400, Thomas E. Dickey wrote: > > > "want" isn't the same as "need" > > People want it so that there's a need for it. > no - you're misusing the word.
I don't think it matters--it's not the issue. (By that reasoning, you don't "need" it in xterm, either.) That said, >If people need something, they'll sit down and do the work. >If people want something, they'll sit back and demand that someone else do >it (as on this mailing list). There's no issue of "work to be done"; this is (was) a just matter of showing (to Wichert) that demand exists; the "work" was merely one autoconf flag. I think the real problem is the one you had: the common misconception that UTF-8 is only useful in X. That's false; as was pointed out, a very common use of Linux (the most common, I'd argue) is connecting remotely, and not necessarily via X. Putty (http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/) has excellent UTF-8 support (and, for my quota of being off-topic, is easily the best Win32 SSH client I've seen.) By the way, thanks for the fix, Wichert--now I can uninstall GTK and save a good 15+ megs memory. :) -- Glenn Maynard - Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
