Daniel Heiserer wrote on 2001-01-11 08:34 UTC:
Using the terminal in linux/unix for input/output I guess that I would
need a utf-8 enabled terminal, right?
Yes. Xterm can do UTF-8 staring with XFree86 4.0. there are also *-ISO10646-1
fonts available for xterm now. For more information, please read
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs-fonts.html
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/unicode.html
Do I need utf-8 fonts for perl-tk. Do these exist?
UTF-8 is a transfer encoding, not anything related to fonts. UCS fonts
are available (see above). Tk 8.4 was unfortunately not able to use UCS
fonts, but that might have been fixed in later versions.
How can I input data then (I only have a keyboard covering the latin
characters, do I need a special keyboard driver?)?
Can I cut and paste input and output?
Yes, the latest xterm can cut&paste Unicode characters nicely, which is
the most convenient form of entry if you need Unicode characters only
rarely, for example the occasional math symbol. You can also put any
Unicode character onto any key with xmodmap.
Markus
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Markus G. Kuhn, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK
Email: mkuhn at acm.org, WWW: <http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/>
