9.7.11 X terminal emulators
There are many X consoles which support simple 8 bit encodings when pertinent
font packages are installed:
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xterm – The X terminal emulator
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gnome-terminal – xterm for Gnome
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konsole – xterm for KDE
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rxvt – VT102 terminal (lighter)
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aterm – VT102 for Afterstep WM
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eterm – VT102 for Enlightment WM
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wterm – VT102 for WindowMaker WM
Multi-byte encoding supports of X console are provided by xterm
through UTF-8 encoding (
UTF-8 support for the X terminal
emulator, Section 9.7.12). Other traditional encoding supports are in
progress (as of 2003). Following packages offer traditional encoding supports:
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aterm-ml – Multi-lingual
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kterm – Multi-lingual (Japanese, ...)
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rxvt-ml – Multi-lingual
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wterm-ml – Multi-lingual
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cxterm-big5 – Chinese (Trad., Big5)
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cxterm-gb – Chinese (Simp., GB)
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cxterm-ks – Chinese (KS)
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cxterm-jis – Japanese
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hanterm-classic – Korean (Hangul)
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hanterm-xf – Korean (Hangul)
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hztty – Chinese (GB, Big5, zW/HZ)
For kterm (and possibly others), you may want to activate XIM
through menu after Ctrl-middle-click mouse action.
