Re: UTF-8 on stdout?

[Lars Clausen <lrclause cs uiuc edu>]

On Sat, 6 Jul 2002, James K. Lowden wrote:
> On Sat, 6 Jul 2002 22:37:37 +0100 (BST), "Andrew Ferrier"
> <andrew junk new-destiny co uk> wrote:
> > In fact, the more I think about this, the more I get confused.
> > I can't seem to find any good introduction/references to all
> > this stuff on the web. Does anyone know where I can go to learn
> > more about character sets etc. these days?
[...]
> Andrew, 
>
> PMJI.  You might want to have a look at http://czyborra.com/ Mr. Czyborra
> has a pretty good overview of what's what regarding encoding and
> character sets, and does a good job of distinguishing between fonts,
> glyphs, and characters.  You may in particular want to look at:
>
>       http://czyborra.com/unicode/terminals.html

Interesting place.  In particular, the -u8 option for xterm does exactly
what Andrew wants.  We should get Akira and Xing Wang to use their utf8
encodings for their names.

-Lars

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