> As a result of being monofont plain text viewers/editors are also notorious > for not supporting much beyond a limited repertoire of characters [a few > noble exceptions to this rule notwithstanding]. > > Unless a widely used plain-text protocol requires or supports these > characters, they remain a solution in search of a problem. I still haven't > seen evidence of such a protocol. > We're doing our best. Kermit software supports Unicode in plain text terminal sessions:
http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/glass.html and Linux is moving in that direction too (e.g. the Linux console in the latest Red Hat release, as well as many Linux / GNU plain-text utilities, now including EMACS 21.1): http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/unicode.html Plain-text interactive shell and application access is still a widely used protocol, and is becoming more internationalized every day thanks to Unicode. - Frank
