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Re: Ode to UTF-8

From: Steve Langasek <vorlon AT netexpress.net>
To: TDS Development Group <freetds AT franklin.metalab.unc.edu>
Cc: camber AT ais.org
Subject: Re: Ode to UTF-8
Date: Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:25:59 -0500

On Sun, Sep 01, 2002 at 07:49:00PM -0400, James K. Lowden wrote:
> > What's needed? unicode columns in SQL Server and a terminal that support
> >
> > utf-8 with sqsh.

> Yup. AIUI, UTF-8 has been hacked into the Linux console, but that's about
> it. There's no free xterm that understands it. You'd have to pipe the
> output to a browswer or something.

I beg to differ. 'xterm -u8' from my XFree86 distro is pretty clear
evidence that not only is there a free xterm that understands it, it's
*the* xterm (for Linux users, at least).

In addition, both gnome-terminal and konsole are utf8-capable.

Now, there are still plenty of curses-based apps around which have
trouble calculating string widths, but there's certainly no dearth of
terminals capable of handling the glyphs.

Steve Langasek
postmodern programmer

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Re: Ode to UTF-8, James K . Lowden, 09/01/2002
- <Possible follow-up(s)>
- Re: Ode to UTF-8, Brian Bruns, 09/01/2002
- Re: Ode to UTF-8, James K . Lowden, 09/01/2002
- Re: Ode to UTF-8, Steve Langasek, 09/01/2002
- Re: Ode to UTF-8, ZIGLIO Frediano, 09/02/2002
- Re: Ode to UTF-8, Mark J. Lilback, 09/02/2002
- Re: Ode to UTF-8, Frediano Ziglio, 09/02/2002
- Re: Ode to UTF-8, James K . Lowden, 09/02/2002
- Re: Ode to UTF-8, Brian Bruns, 09/02/2002
- Re: Ode to UTF-8, Mark J. Lilback, 09/03/2002
- Re: Ode to UTF-8, James K . Lowden, 09/03/2002
- Re: Ode to UTF-8, James K . Lowden, 09/03/2002
- Re: Ode to UTF-8, Frediano Ziglio, 09/04/2002
- Re: Ode to UTF-8, Thompson, Bill D (London), 09/04/2002