UTF-8 support status.

2002-02-01 Thread Sylvain
Hi, I have a basic GNU/Linux system (kernel 2.4.17, glib 2.2.4, no X, bash 2.05a) and I would like to convert it or reinstall it as a 100% UTF-8 system. I'm using the Linux console and I'm aware of its UTF-8 support. I would like to know where I can find a valid French keymap with euro for the

Re: UTF-8 support status.

2002-02-01 Thread Pablo Saratxaga
Kaixo! On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 03:12:56PM +0100, Sylvain wrote: for a good 512 glyphs font for the Linux console. What is the best way to convert my man pages and my info pages to UTF-8 (iconv, recode...)? I have a bad news for you: you cannot use utf-8 for man pages source. There is however

Announcing Bytext

2002-02-01 Thread Bernard Miller
Hello, For those of you not already on the Unicode mailing list I thought you would like to be aware of www.bytext.org. Bytext has a much better design than Unicode and is a better long term solution. One of the main features is that it is designed to be searchable with fast 8 bit regular

Re: UTF-8 support status.

2002-02-01 Thread Thomas Dickey
lynx does not compute line length correctly and higlights incorrect parts of text (acceptable for languages with little actually, last fall I modified lynx to use ncursesw, and it appeasrs to work reasonably well (does not compute lengths for combining characters, which is not as bad as what

Re: Announcing Bytext

2002-02-01 Thread David Starner
On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 08:22:54AM -0800, Bernard Miller wrote: Hello, For those of you not already on the Unicode mailing list I thought you would like to be aware of www.bytext.org. Bytext has a much better design than Unicode and is a better long term solution. One of the main features is