Re: UTF-8 support

[Paul Eggert]

Bruno Haible <address@hidden> writes:

> Paul Eggert wrote:
>> I read your email containing accented letters with GNU Emacs 21.4 and
>> Gnus 5.10.6, a combination that supports UTF-8.
>
> The UTF-8 support in Emacs 21.4 is minimal. Some people recommend the
> emacs-unicode-2 branch of the Emacs CVS. (Haven't tried it.)

Me neither.  But I should be clear that this problem wasn't really
Emacs; it was xterm's.

> The fact that "uxterm" is not called "xterm" makes it ignore the .Xdefaults
> settings for "xterm".

Well, I'm using Gnome, and it ignores .Xdefaults entirely.  You're
supposed to use .Xresources.  I don't know why they renamed it.  But
uxterm seems to pick up my .Xresources settings.

In Debian 3.1 r0a, uxterm is a shell script wrapper around xterm; it
ends up invoking "xterm -class UXTerm -title uxterm -u8".  It also
futzes with your locale if necessary.

> Also you need to be careful about the fonts that you use with it.

Yes.  Fonts are a pain.  Debian has disabled bitmapped fonts to some
extent, which made my conversion even more interesting.  Thanks for
your scripts, though: I'll salt them away for ideas when I have the
time.  (None of them work for me unchanged -- how typical.  :-)

I am starting to give up on running Emacs-over-xterm, and am going
more with a straight X connection using OpenSSH's compression.  It
might be adequate with my home DSL line, though it's clearly not as
zippy as Emacs-over-xterm was.  I think this will fix that particular
UTF-8 glitch (so that I can be ready for the next one :-).