--- Paul Irofti  wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 11:22:53AM -0400, Nick Guenther wrote:

quoted text
> > On 11/1/07, Juan Miscaro  wrote:

> > > Hi gang.

> > >

> > > Is there any priority for having OpenBSD support UTF8?

> > >

> > > // peter

> >

> > utf-8 isn't an OS-level thing. You need to do it in every app.

> > Googling, the first result brings up

> > http://osdir.com/ml/os.openbsd.ports/2004-02/msg00376.html as an

> > example.

> >

>

> The sad thing is that the man pages don't mention that OpenBSD's libc

> doesn't quite support locale, multibyte/wide char conversions thus

> Unicode.

>

> E.g. if you look at mbstowcs(3) you'd say: okay, I can use that...

> but

> looking at the code behind it you'll see its a pure stab that does a

> simple memcpy from chars to ints (or wchar_ts as they modernly call

> it

> in C99).

To get back to the practical nature of my original request, if someone

can let me know how to write French characters in a terminal (via an

SSH connection) I would be very grateful.  I would like to use a

terminal emulator that uses UTF8 and I believe xterm does this but I

can't find an OpenBSD package (or port) for it.
// juan
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