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On Wed, 2006-11-01 at 20:10 +0000, David Cantrell wrote: > On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 02:52:18PM +0100, A. Pagaltzis wrote: > > * David Cantrell <david@xxxxxxxx.xxx.xx> [2006-10-29 14:10]: > > > No, that was a backslash, a three, a two, and a seven. Please > > > try again. If you disagree, then consider my usual invitation > > > to the Unicodistas to be extended - I'll take you seriously > > > once you've configured all my machines and all my applications > > > to display your foolishness properly.It just works out of the box > > Here's a nickel, get yourself some technology from this decade. >=20 > You say that without realising that all the machines I regularly use ha= d > their operating system either bought or downloaded within the last two > years. Likewise all the software I run on them. No idea what you've been downloading or buying, but I've had no trouble with any of these multilingual posts and I've not done anything special with this Fedora Core 5 installation. I probably had to install one or more of the extra language fonts because they aren't considered default on an english language install, but certainly nothing more than that. I think that's entirely reasonable - if a whole bunch of unnecessary fonts were installed by default wasting disk space I'd be among those complaining. Oh, and the multiply and x looked entirely distinguishable here. Not that I'm advocating such use in a programming language, that would be hateful. Unicode works in pretty much any program I use on the desktop, even good old fashioned xterm. The filesystem works perfectly well too: % touch =E3=81=A2=E3=81=B2=E3=82=8F % ls -al total 28 drwxr-xr-x 2 martin martin 4096 Nov 1 21:58 ./ drwxr-xr-x 119 martin martin 12288 Nov 1 21:58 ../ -rw-r--r-- 1 martin martin 0 Nov 1 21:58 =E3=81=A2=E3=81=B2=E3=82=8F %=20 That's output directly from xterm, using the default bitmap font, it looks like that too (well, assuming it worked at your end :)). The only thing I've found that's not quite there was filename completion with zsh. With menu completion it expands the filenames to their escape codes which isn't much use, but when you complete it the correct characters appear. All in all, pretty impressive, although I've not tried to see what happens for right-to-left languages... Cheers, Martin.There's stuff above here
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