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List:       kde-announce
Subject:    ANNOUNCE: Unicode support in konsole
From:       Lars Doelle <lars.doelle () on-line ! de>
Date:       2000-01-13 23:34:21
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Folks,

this is the official "konsole now supports unicode"
announcement.

Since i've tested the unicode support only in my locale,
i'd like to have some feedback from non-iso8859-1
environment. Setting the "Unicode" font should allow
you to get your national glyphs right out of the box
if your X11 installation is properly localized.

Additionally, an arbitrary long, tmpfile base history
buffer has been introduced.

Enjoy,
  Lars

PS: citing from [kdebase/konsole/README.unicode]:

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Konsole now supports unicode, which means one can display up
to 64K different glyphs at the same time on one screen.

The enhancement is pretty complete and the main current
advantage should be more a smooth operation of konsole
within localed environments. At least the european locales
should be enabled to use their local scripts when running
konsole.

To fully install it, please get a complete set of unicode
enhanced fixed fonts from

   <http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs-fonts.html>.

These fonts are expected to be distributed with the next X11
release. Konsole distributes one of this fonts for your
convenience. Please add the other fonts to your local
installation to make best use of the enhancement.

Though Asiatic supplements are also available from that
site, it is not clear at the time of writing, whether
the current implementation copes well with these scripts.
Since i like to support these scripts, too, any feed back
is appreciated.

Also, a new linux console font has been converted for X11.
This font has iso10646-1 encoding and the usual vga glyphs.

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