Re: [e-users] SuSE Drops Eterm [Fwd from Heiko Rommel]

[Bradley R. <bra...@co...>]

On Mon, 28 Jun 2004 14:36:11 -0400
Michael Jennings <e-...@ka...> wrote:

> On Monday, 28 June 2004, at 14:28:39 (-0400),
> Bradley Reed wrote:
> 
> > I use Eterm in Slackware which dropped enlightenment and Eterm long
> > ago.
> 
> Well, Slackware's a whole different ballgame.  I'll spare you my
> Slackware rant. :-)

I'd like to persuade Patrick V. to get enlightenment and Eterm back in
Slackware. Now that libast doesn't seem to conflict with the 'other
libast used by Korn Shell" and now that the size of the enlightenment
base package is 10% of its previous size, it may be worth a shot. 

I'd be curious to hear your rant, if for no other reason than to beef up
my proposal to Pat.

> > I can see SUSE's point. More and more distros are supporting UTF-8
> > and need UTF-8 support in their terminal emulators. Distros are not
> > just for western European languages anymore. People do want to type
> > in Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, etc.
> 
> I understand that.  Of course, Eterm has supported Japanese, Chinese,
> and Korean for some time now.  Just not UTF-8.
> 
> I don't really know much about UTF-8 and iconv().  A few people have
> offered to write a patch, but no one actually has.  So any help is
> greatly appreciated!

Honestly, I didn't know Eterm supported CJK. I only know Arabic, Farsi,
some Pashto, and bits of Urdu and know I have had only partial success
typing them. This isn't Eterm's fault necessarily, Unicode itself
doesn't support Pashto fully, hence my hacked Yudit. 
 
> My attention has been focused more on work, cAos, and Mezzanine.
> 0.9.3 will be out real soon though.

I definitely understand other priorities. The amount of code I've
written since my daughter was born is near zero.  

I look forward to Eterm 0.9.3!  

> Patches welcome!  Requested, in fact!  Even begged for! :)

Understood!  Hopefully I can make time in the future, although I still
have a lot to learn about UTF-8 and iconv() too. Right now though, baby
comes first. :-)

Brad