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65 rxvt-unicode|rxvt-unicode terminal (X Window System):\ 65 rxvt-unicode|rxvt-unicode terminal (X Window System):\
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278 As you might have guessed, FreeBSD does neither define this symobl 279 As you might have guessed, FreeBSD does neither define this symobl
279 nor does it support it. Instead, it uses it's own internal 280 nor does it support it. Instead, it uses it's own internal
280 representation of wchar_t. This is, of course, completely fine with 281 representation of wchar_t. This is, of course, completely fine with
281 respect to standards. 282 respect to standards.
282 283
284 However, that means rxvt-unicode only works in "POSIX", "ISO-8859-1"
285 and "UTF-8" locales under FreeBSD (which all use Unicode as wchar_t.
286
283 However, "__STDC_ISO_10646__" is the only sane way to support 287 "__STDC_ISO_10646__" is the only sane way to support multi-language
284 multi-language apps in an OS, as using a locale-dependent (and 288 apps in an OS, as using a locale-dependent (and non-standardized)
285 non-standardized) representation of wchar_t makes it impossible to 289 representation of wchar_t makes it impossible to convert between
286 convert between wchar_t (as used by X11 and your applications) and 290 wchar_t (as used by X11 and your applications) and any other
287 any other encoding without implementing OS-specific-wrappers for 291 encoding without implementing OS-specific-wrappers for each and
288 each and every locale. There simply are no APIs to convert wchar_t 292 every locale. There simply are no APIs to convert wchar_t into
289 into anything except the current locale encoding. 293 anything except the current locale encoding.
290 294
291 Some applications (such as the formidable mlterm) work around this 295 Some applications (such as the formidable mlterm) work around this
292 by carrying their own replacement functions for character set 296 by carrying their own replacement functions for character set
293 handling with them, and either implementing OS-dependent hacks or 297 handling with them, and either implementing OS-dependent hacks or
294 doing multiple conversions (which is slow and unreliable in case the 298 doing multiple conversions (which is slow and unreliable in case the

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