On Thu, 24 Aug 2000, Xianping Ge wrote:
> I have a working patch against rxvt-2.7.3 to enable
> multibyte-char, e.g., Unicode (UTF-8), GBK, Big5, etc:
>
> http://www.ics.uci.edu/~xge/clinux/rxvt/
Thanks, I'll have a look.
I thought Big5 was already supported. I have crxvt 2.6.2 that comes
standard with Debian, and it seems to work fine (I can read files, that I
have created with cxterm-big5).
> couple of minor bugs. The most URGENT thing on the to-do list is to write
> some real code to classify a Unicode character as single-width (e.g., ASCII)
> or double-width (e.g., Chinese characters).
I might be mistaking here, but my understanding is that the chinese
characters are coded on three bytes in UTF-8.
> Currently, I make everything > 255
> as double-width, which is obviously wrong. Need to read through Unicode
> documents to get this right. When this is done (and most bugs removed), I'll
> propose the patch to be merged.
Anything I can help with, or do you have most everything under control ?
Yves.
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