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From: kato%cs.titech.junet@utokyo-relay.CSNET (Akira Kato)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: 8bit xterm
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Date: 24 May 88 17:50:30 GMT
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About a couple of months ago, someone posted an article about xterm
with the 8bit character handling.

With the 8bit through tty/pty, it is very much convenient to make use
of such a font, for example, ISO 8859-1 for European people. For Japanese
text handling, we have to make three GC's, one for 7bit-ASCII, one for
7bit-Kana, and one for (7bit)^2-Kanji. This makes the coding more complicated.
If we can provide 8bit character set in one font, we can reduce the number of
GC's to two. In European version only one GC would be necessary.

The modification of xterm to make use of 8bit character set would be a
quick hack, however, the problem is whether such 8bit character set will be
used for *any* client programs as standard.

Obviously, it helps all of the people in the world (but U.S. and U.K. :-),
if appropriate font naming convention will be used in future release.

Is there any mailing list or organization for internationalizing of
X Window System ?

-- Akira Kato, Tokyo Inst. of Tech.
   kato%cs.titech.junet@relay.cs.net