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