[Dclug] New Term at gwyn.tux.org

[Alan McConnell]

On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 07:32:48PM -0500, James Ewing Cottrell 3rd wrote:
> Alan McConnell wrote:
> >
> >I have recently upgraded my terminal sw from rxvt to
> >rxvt-unicode. 
> 
> How is that an upgrade if you're just going to use 7 bit ASCII anyway?
	Good question.  Ideally, I'd like a terminal(aka terminal SW)
	to simply "do it right": e.g. display Arabic, Hebrew, Malayalam,
	Coptic, etc, plus Euro signs, (English) pound signs, diacritical
	marks of all kinds, correctly on my screen -- while e.g. using
	mutt -- without further fuss on my part.   I'd also like a
	unified and comprehensible<g> way of writing such.

	I am a long long way from that.  I am certainly aware that there have
	to be a lot of fonts available to my terminal SW, and that is
	just one part of the problem.   [  Does anyone really comprehend
	all facets of the problem/issue of computer fonts?  is any
	document available which discusses such? ]

	And, additionally, I'd like such capabilities to be installed
	on any computer system that I may log into, such as gmail, or
	our beloved tux computers, etc.

	My original problem was:  simply to get a work-around so that
	I could at least _see_ if I had any mail on gwyn.

If I am beknighted, take pity and lead me to the straight and narrow.  Please.

Best wishes, and looking forward to forthcoming illumination.

Alan

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