[Zhcon-announce] ANN: zhcon-0.2.5 released, with utf8 support

[ejoy <ej...@us...>]

Hi all,
  The wait is over, now the new zhcon 0.2.5 adds UTF-8 support!

What's new in zhcon version 0.2.5?
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zhcon 0.2.5 is a major release since 0.2.3, adding basic utf-8 support
under linux.
    * Added: --utf8 option to enable utf-8 encoding filter to convert utf8
      code to/from system encoding (gb2312 etc.) on the fly
    * Added: --exec to launch a user program after start up
    * Added: --drv to select which video driver to use
    * Fixed: improved building script
    * Removed: tips, config menu and localized text support

please node bsd support is *broken* at this time
check README.utf8 for details on the new utf8 feature

  You can find the new package from:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/zhcon/zhcon-0.2.5.tar.gz?download

What is zhcon?
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Zhcon is a fast Linux Console Chinese System which supports
framebuffer device.It can display Chinese, Japanese or Korean
double byte characters.Supported language encodings include:
GB2312, GBK, BIG5, JIS and KSC.
http://zhcon.sf.net


Cheers,
ejoy