runing slrn in a utf8-terminal
LANG=en_GB.iso88591 luit -encoding ISO-8859-1 slrn -h news.individual.de
Using perl to print utf8-chars
chris@bishop:~$ perl -C -e 'print pack("U",0x20ac)."\n"'
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running xterm in utf8-mode, big font
- xterm -fn '-Misc-Fixed-Medium-R-Normal--18-120-100-100-C-90-ISO10646-1' -u8
having xterm pick up urls by mouse doubleclick
cat >>~/.Xresources<<EOT ! Make it easier to grab URLs by double-clicking: *.charClass:33:48,35:48,37:48,43:48,45-47:48,61:48,63:48,64:48,95:48,126:48,35:48,58:48 ! XTerm*charClass:33:48,35-38:48,42-43:48,45-47:48,58:48,61:48,63-64:48,126:48 ! Here is a good test url: ! http://www.redhat.com EOT
links
- http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/unicode.html – great unicode/utf8 overview
- http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs-fonts.html – Unicode fonts and tools for X11
- http://wiki.grml.org/doku.php?id=utf8 – utf8 on grml and debian
