"hillmanhk" <hillmanhk@sinaman.com> writes:
Hi all,
It's my first time to use this mail list, hi all^^
When I try to use the multi-language support options of Eterm and aterm, i.e. --mencoding, -mfont of Eterm, -km, -fm of aterm,
I'll get an error message that they don't recognize those options, it seems that they are compiled without enable multi-language function. Could you help me?
Yes, aterm is configured without --enable-kanji and --enable-big5 and Eterm is configured without options for Asian languages as well. The reason is that as soon as you compile aterm with these options, it won't work correctly for European languages anymore. You will loose the ability to display German umlauts for example. It is quite similar with Eterm, last time I tried, I found no easy way not to break support for European languages when configuring with --enable-multi-charset and --enable-xim. A terminal with proper multilingual support should choose the correct encoding depending on the value of LC_CTYPE. For example mlterm and rxvt do it like that: LC_CTYPE=de_DE@euro mlterm LC_CTYPE=ja_JP.UTF-8 mlterm LC_CTYPE=zh_TW.Big5 mlterm will start mlterms using ISO-8859-15, UTF-8, and Big5 encoding with suitable fonts. Both aterm and Eterm would need some patches to make this work well. And I don't know whether this is worth the effort. What's wrong with mlterm and rxvt? Is there a special reason why you need to use aterm or Eterm?
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