Re: [tlug] Re: UTF-8 Terminal Emulators?

[Jim Breen <jwb@example.com>]

[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.

Jim

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