Pádraig Brady wrote:
> Josh Glover wrote:
>> 2008/5/30 James McCarthy <James.McCarthy at sun.com>:
>>>>> My question is which terminal would you recommend & why (xterm or Gnome
>>> terminal)?
>> I hate GNOME and don't use it, but I still use gnome-terminal, because
>> it is the best at i18n, in my experience.
>> Yes it's very good for i18n. It doesn't handle combining chars though,
> which has caused problems for me:
>>> I regularly have to type English, Japanese, and Bulgarian / Russian
>> into my terminal, and occasionally have to type German and French, and
>> regularly have to read all these languages in all the various encoding
>> permutations (e.g. ISO-2022-JP,
>>> Shit_JIS,
>> It's not that bad.
>>> EUC_JP, UTF8, Latin-1,
>> KOI8-R, ad nauseum), and gnome-terminal + SCIM Just Works.
Ha, just noticed this on planet gnome.
gnome-terminal just got 500 commits yesterday :)
http://tinyurl.com/5yvgc3
Pádraig.
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