Better explanation?

Posted Feb 14, 2006 3:05 UTC (Tue) by roelofs (guest, #2599)
In reply to: Better explanation? by pimlott
Parent article: Setting up international character support (Linux.com)

xterm and I hope other modern terminal programs will recognize the locale, and so encode/decode the terminal streams as utf-8 and use a unicode font.

xterm may also require the -u8 option. Both LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 and -u8 are already part of the uxterm script, at least on Slackware. The default font seems to be missing a fair number of CJK characters, however (not to mention virtually all Indic ones, Thai, etc.).

Greg