Re: [Mlterm-dev-en] Arabic and mlterm

[Nicholas H. <he...@es...>]

Rich,

	Yes, you are correct and Minami has already explained this to me.
I changed the locale to one with UTF-8 encoding and mlterm works just fine
now. :-)  For some reason my locale was set to POSIX.  Maybe I did that
without realizing what I was doing when I installed Debian 3.1.

Nicholas


On Sun, 29 Apr 2007, Rich Felker wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 04:28:52PM -0700, Nicholas Heer wrote:
> > Dear Minami,
> >
> > 	I haven't yet discovered how to change any of the environment
> > variables connected with locale.  However I think I know why mlterm works
> > in an uxterm and why it doesn't in an xterm.  If I give the command
> > "locale" in an xterm I get the following:
>
> This whole xterm/uxterm division is artificial and blatently
> incorrect, probably an artifact of using an outdated distro with bad
> transitional UTF-8 support. You said you're using Debian... modern
> Debian versions have an xterm that's always UTF-8 capable if your
> system locale is set to a UTF-8 locale (which is also default on
> modern versions).
>
> Rich
>
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