9 Apr
2015
9 Apr
'15
11:33 a.m.
Quoting Trent W. Buck (trentbuck@gmail.com):
Also nitpick: xterm *does* support unicode, it just doesn't support non-latin/cyrillic/greek orthographies very well. Obs. xterm -u8 / uxterm.
It supports us weirdo Scandihoovians with our 'Latin-plus' alphabets well, FWIW. (Those aren't diacriticals you see in Scandinavian words, but rather distinct letters.[1] They have spots in alphabetical order following the letter zed. More at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f488uJAQgmw ) [1] Comedian Garrison Keillor, who had long residence in Denmark, once observed that the letter that looks like an 'o' with a diagonal line through it means 'This word cannot be pronounced by Americans.'