9.7.12 UTF-8 support for the X terminal emulator
UTF-8 support for X terminal emulator is provided by the uxterm
program in the xterm package for XFree86 4.x. It enables support
for all languages. It is a wrapper around the xterm(1) program
that invokes the latter program with the "UXTerm" X resource class
set.
For example, to enable nice large display of English, Russian, Japanese,
Chinese, and Korean characters, add following to your
~/.Xresources after installing all the pertinent fonts:
! set large font
UXTerm*font: -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal-*-18-120-100-100-c-90-iso10646-1
! Use XIM for Japanese
*inputMethod: kinput2
Then run xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources to update X resources as
described in
X resources, Section 9.4.10.
Although most of the popular console program packages such as vim,
mutt, and emacs have been made compatible with UTF-8
recently (Woody-Sarge). Program such as mc still is not UTF-8
compatible but simply 8-bit clean. If you are editing 7 bit ASCII part of
unknown or mixed encoding file, it is safer to use the locale unaware 8-bit
clean editor.
See
The Unicode
HOWTO.
