--- rxvt-unicode/README.configure 2021/05/14 13:47:43 1.83 +++ rxvt-unicode/README.configure 2021/07/03 04:04:12 1.84 @@ -49,18 +49,18 @@ up the input for people using dead keys or compose keys. --enable-unicode3 (default: off) - Recommended to stay off unless you really need non-BMP characters. + Recommended to stay off unless you really need a lot of non-BMP + characters. - Enable direct support for displaying unicode codepoints above 65535 + Enable support for direct storage of unicode characters above 65535 (the basic multilingual page). This increases storage requirements per character from 2 to 4 bytes. X11 fonts do not yet support these extra characters, but Xft does. - Please note that rxvt-unicode can store unicode code points >65535 - even without this flag, but the number of such characters is limited - to a few thousand (shared with combining characters, see next - switch), and right now rxvt-unicode cannot display them - (input/output and cut&paste still work, though). + Please note that rxvt-unicode can store and display unicode + characters above 65535 even without this flag, but the number of + such characters is limited to a few thousand (shared with combining + characters, see next switch). --enable-combining (default: on) Enable automatic composition of combining characters into composite @@ -194,7 +194,7 @@ verbose X error handling --enable-iso14755 (default: on) - Enable extended ISO 14755 support (see urxvt(1)). Basic support + Enable extended ISO 14755 support (see rxvt(1)). Basic support (section 5.1) is enabled by "--enable-frills", while support for 5.2, 5.3 and 5.4 is enabled with this switch. @@ -226,8 +226,8 @@ Add support to have the pointer disappear when typing or inactive. --enable-perl (default: on) - Enable an embedded perl interpreter. See the urxvtperl(3) manpage - for more info on this feature, or the files in src/perl/ for the + Enable an embedded perl interpreter. See the rxvtperl(3) manpage for + more info on this feature, or the files in src/perl/ for the extensions that are installed by default. The perl interpreter that is used can be specified via the "PERL" environment variable when running configure. Even when compiled in, perl will *not* be @@ -249,7 +249,7 @@ "rxvt-unicode-256color" by default (doc/etc/ contains termcap/terminfo definitions for both). - It also results in higher memory usage and can slow down urxvt + It also results in higher memory usage and can slow down rxvt dramatically when more than six fonts are in use by a terminal instance.