Unicode/widechar xterm

[Thomas Dickey]

On Tue, 6 Nov 2007, Brian Dessent wrote:

> Robert Uhl wrote:
>
>> Recent builds of xterm don't have --with-wide-chars (or whatever)
>> enabled.  Any good reason why not?  Connecting to a Unicode terminal
>> with a non-unicode xterm has...interesting...results.
>
> Cygwin/newlib only supports the C locale, so you could build xterm or
> rxvt with unicode enabled but it would not actually be able to function.

The terminal would work, but most applications do not have self-contained
locale support (mined does, I'm told).

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