[Alpine-info] Foreign Characters?

[Dan Mahoney, System Admin]

On Mon, 12 Jan 2009, Benjamin R. Haskell wrote:


> On Mon, 12 Jan 2009, Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote:

>

>>>> c) screen/termcap

>> 

>> I found that I had to do ctrl-a :utf8 on in the window running alpine. 

>> Screen was still blocking it until I did this.  I now find that the last 

>> character of your last name looks (to me) like a regular z, with "rabbit 

>> ears" (I don't know the character name).  Is that right?

>

> Yes, Andraž's name ends with a z with a caron (ž):

> ž       017e    LATIN SMALL LETTER Z WITH CARON

>

> (I've heard it more often called a háček (hacek) 

> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacek )

>

>

>> Could someone with another name/text (preferably asian) send something to 

>> me to check this with as well?

>

> I've wanted for a very long time to be able to display more than just 

> Eurocentric "foreign" characters inside a terminal that I could also use for 

> my normal work (in English).  My guess is that your sticking point is going 

> to be the font.  Something like Firefox will handle many scripts, because it 

> will fall back to a different font depending on the character range.  As far 

> as I know (which, several years ago, was pretty far, but I haven't been 

> studying any languages lately), there aren't any terminals that handle that 

> gracefully.  Mlterm was the only one I found that handled variable-width, 

> right-to-left scripts (Arabic) in any decent manner, and was pretty good for 

> both Chinese and Japanese.  Konsole may have come close, in terms of the 

> font-mixing I'm looking for.  (But, it didn't work at all for Arabic.)


Gnome-terminal under ubuntu appears to work very very well...

Screenshot linked from here.

http://gushi.livejournal.com/456121.html

I ask you to look because I'm not sure if the characters are "right" (I 
know only that they're not "????????" or high-ascii anymore.


>

> If you can find a font and/or terminal and/or terminal setup that handles 

> many scripts at once, I'd be very interested in hearing about it.  Right now, 

> in uxterm with Lucida Sans Unicode, I get nice Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic. 

> But, no CJK characters.


Let me know how this works.

-Dan

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