[tlug] Re: UTF-8 Terminal Emulators?

[Mike Fabian <mfabian@example.com>]

Jim Breen <jwb@example.com> writes:

> [Mike Fabian ([tlug] Re: UTF-8 Terminal Emulators?) writes:]
>>> 
> ST > What's hard to do is to implement the callbacks and
> ST > filtering well for on the spot conversion.
>>> 
>>> Yes, that is very hard and therefore it is implemented well only in
>>> very few programs currently.
>>> 
>>> Current versions of Mozilla and gvim (Vim with gtk gui) support 
>>> on the spot perfectly.
>
> I'm impressed with that aspect of Mozilla (its clunky rendering of some
> larger typefaces is less than impressive.)
>
> I was a little surprised when I first got kinput2 working with Mozilla
> the way a tiny window popped up below the Mozilla screen containing a
> hiragana "a". Then I realised that it was the usual over-the-spot marker,
> displaced off the window.

You can have this indicator at that position with other applications
(kterm, rxvt, mlterm, KDE apps, ... many others) too, if you want.
Just add 

    Kinput2*modeLocation: bottomleft

to your ~/.Xresources (see 'man kinput2').

I personally like the default ``tracktext'' better than
``bottomleft'', but several people asked me recently whether this
indicator window could be moved a bit more out of the way, because
they found it annoying close to the cursor position. 

-- 
Mike Fabian   <mfabian@example.com>   http://www.suse.de/~mfabian
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