Thanks everybody for your input. 1) I'm downloading the SuSE 9.2 dvd iso right now... The 9.0 works pretty well with utf-8, except for the keymap switching, but I really don't mind clicking.
Please forgive my ignorance, but what are <meta>, <compose>, <win>, .. keys? Sounds like X jargon. [I'm not too clear on how the keymap fits into the input stream. I know it translates keysyms into characters, but I'm not sure how the shortcuts switch the keymaps.] 2) I'll give fedora a try too. 3) As for Debian, I haven't had time to trim it... I have 8 cds (the readme says I should have 7), but there are 2 cd 1's, a US and a non-US (and 2 update cds). The system installs from either; I can't tell the difference. It looks like I'll have to install the packages by hand -- a daunting project. The unicode doesn't seem to work using the installation procedure alone. This is my first Linux box and I'm having a great time. All comments/incouragement welcome. Thanks. Elvis --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sat, Feb 05, 2005 at 01:20:13PM -0500, srintuar wrote: > > > > > > I dont think there is anything controversial in there: > > the linux console is known not to work with unicode, > > emacs has well documented problems with unicode > > weve been hearing about for years, and as far as I know > > fedora seems to have the most aggresive utf-8 support > > of any distro. > > > > Redhat 7.1 is years out of date, and it certainly wont > > impress anyone looking for i18n support. > > > > >Please, don't try to start flames. Thank you. > > > > > > > > >>Try fedora core 3, its the only way to fly. > > >> > > >>Stay away from emacs. (Ive ben editing utf-8 text in > > >>vim for several years now, no problem) Use gnome > > >>terminal as your shell. (stay away from the linux > > >>console itself) > > >> > > >> > > > > > So, what is me?: A Debian user always running emacs and doing whatever > you can think with unicode. Please, don't tell peaple what distro, text > editor etc. they should use... this is a matter of taste... "its the > _only way_...", "Stay away from..." please, avoid this words. > > -- > mandioca > > > -- > Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels > Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/ > > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - 250MB free storage. Do more. Manage less. http://info.mail.yahoo.com/mail_250 -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
