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Re: Writing multi-lingual terminal applications
- To: Ilya Konstantinov <linux-il(at-nospam)future.galanet.net>
- Subject: Re: Writing multi-lingual terminal applications
- From: Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir(at-nospam)technion.ac.il>
- Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 17:54:50 +0200 (IST)
- cc: Shlomi Fish <shlomif(at-nospam)techst02.technion.ac.il>, linux-il(at-nospam)linux.org.il
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On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, Ilya Konstantinov wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 09:39:39AM +0200, Shlomi Fish wrote:
> > A friend of mine wishes to do such a thing. AFAIK, all he needs to do is
> > to adapt the output to the various codepages of the languages. But is
> > there another catch?
>
> Yes, and expect the user to configure their terminal to the font of the
> certain language.
Or they can set:
LANG=he
LC_MESSAGES=C
and not worry about those silly hebrew messages.
(such relatively complex behaviour is a reason to use existing libraries,
rather than re-implementing this functionality)
>
> Or, you can expect the user to run a Unicode terminal (latest Konsole
> and xterm can do it) and output in utf-8 (and then you can even have
> multiple languages on the same terminal).
I don't have a good experince with konsole. I could never get it to
display:
konsole --help
properly :(
(from within bash in konsole)
(I have iso10646-1 fonts which I successfuly used for the user interface
of the same konsole). But my version of kde ir relativly ancient.
--
Tzafrir Cohen
mailto:tzafrir@technion.ac.il
http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir
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