[tlug] Re: UTF-8 Terminal Emulators?

[Mike Fabian <mfabian@example.com>]

David Eduardo Gomez "Noguera a.k.a. dabicho" <davidgn@example.com> writes:

> On Tue, 2002-04-16 at 07:31, Mike Fabian wrote:
>> "A.Sajjad Zaidi" <sajjad@example.com> writes:
>> 
>> > On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 01:28:24PM +0200, Mike Fabian wrote:

[...]

>> Usually you cannot change the input server in the running program.
>> 
>> There are exceptions though, for example the multilingual terminal
>> emulator 'mlterm' can switch between different XIM servers
>> (e.g. between the XIM servers mentioned above) on the fly at while
>> running.
>> 
>> IIIMF, which is supposed to replace XIM eventually, is designed to be
>> able to switch between different servers/languages at runtime, i.e.
>> when IIIMF becomes widespread, this should become easier.
>> 
>> And of course there is (X)Emacs. (X)Emacs has input methods for many
>> languages, can switch between them on the fly and works with UTF-8 if
>> Mule-UCS is used.
>
> What about Yudit?
> I think its simply the one that best supports utf8 (although i really
> think its about any character encoding).

Yudit and (X)Emacs have their own special solutions to switch
between different input methods.

IIIMF is supposed to give a general solution which would be the same
for all programs.

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