I had written: : > Dead keys and the compose-key don't work yet in UTF-8 mode. Markus wrote: : This clearly will have to be fixed in Xlib, not in xterm. I wonder, : whether the i18n stuff that Sun plans to release to X.Org in a few weeks : comes already with a UTF-8 Xlib locale in which dead and compose keys do : what we want them to do, such that we then can finally replace the : current temporary keysym2ucs() hack in xterm by XmbLookupString(). I had previously commented, and Thomas Dickey had agreed, that basic tools such as terminal emulators and editors should be able to be installed on legacy systems too. (That's why I never considered to use any of the glib wide character stuff in my editor.) I would appreciate to always have a UTF-8 xterm even on older machines without any Unicode support in the environment. You might argue that it's acceptable then to have it with some functional restrictions but it clearly is a drawback. Kind regards, Thomas - Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/lists/
