Re: Terminal issues in fresh install

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Subject: Re: Terminal issues in fresh install
From: Thomas Dickey <dickey@saltmine.radix.net>
Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2008 00:22:54 -0000
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References: <[🔎] 20080101002352.GB22483@sherohman.org> <[🔎] 20080101011952.GB29864@alpaca> <[🔎] 20080101184804.GA10544@sherohman.org> <[🔎] 20080101195726.GA10709@alpaca>

Daniel Burrows <dburrows@debian.org> wrote:

>   IIRC there was a situation a few years ago where you had to install a
> Unicode-enabled xterm, pass "-u", or both.  Sarge dates to 2005; I'm sure
> that there were X terminals in 2005 that could handle UTF-8, but I don't
> know if the default xterm did.

xterm's supported UTF-8 since 1999:

	http://invisible-island.net/xterm/xterm.log.html

(likewise, it's been possible to change the encoding)

-- 
Thomas E. Dickey
http://invisible-island.net
ftp://invisible-island.net

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