--- rxvt-unicode/README.FAQ 2005/02/17 12:06:21 1.12 +++ rxvt-unicode/README.FAQ 2005/04/17 22:36:12 1.13 @@ -281,13 +281,16 @@ representation of wchar_t. This is, of course, completely fine with respect to standards. - However, "__STDC_ISO_10646__" is the only sane way to support - multi-language apps in an OS, as using a locale-dependent (and - non-standardized) representation of wchar_t makes it impossible to - convert between wchar_t (as used by X11 and your applications) and - any other encoding without implementing OS-specific-wrappers for - each and every locale. There simply are no APIs to convert wchar_t - into anything except the current locale encoding. + However, that means rxvt-unicode only works in "POSIX", "ISO-8859-1" + and "UTF-8" locales under FreeBSD (which all use Unicode as wchar_t. + + "__STDC_ISO_10646__" is the only sane way to support multi-language + apps in an OS, as using a locale-dependent (and non-standardized) + representation of wchar_t makes it impossible to convert between + wchar_t (as used by X11 and your applications) and any other + encoding without implementing OS-specific-wrappers for each and + every locale. There simply are no APIs to convert wchar_t into + anything except the current locale encoding. Some applications (such as the formidable mlterm) work around this by carrying their own replacement functions for character set