--- rxvt-unicode/README.unicode 2004/02/24 22:28:40 1.5 +++ rxvt-unicode/README.unicode 2004/02/25 12:38:30 1.6 @@ -7,8 +7,14 @@ might work and might be broken. - wchar_t MUST be UNICODE or ISO-10646-1 on your system, or various things - will break down. On GNU/Linux, this is true, on Solaris, this is true - only for "@ucs" locales, but you should have plenty of them. + will break down. On GNU/Linux, this is true for all locales, on Solaris, + this might be true only for locales ending in "@ucs", but you should + have plenty of them, as there should be a corresponding @ucs-locale for + every normal locale. + + If you know details for other operating systems, please notify me (in + general, if your env defines __STDC_ISO_10646__ then everything should + be fine). - rxvt will use unicode internally, but does input/output in the current locale. so to get a utf-8 terminal, use "LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 rxvt" or @@ -18,7 +24,9 @@ using the imLocale ressource or switch, e.g.: LC_CTYPE=ja_JP.UTF-8 rxvt -imlocale ja_JP.EUC-JP -- keyboard input is limited by the selected X locale. +- keyboard input is limited by the selected locale (and X's support for it), + tty input and output likewise. selection support is mostly independent + of the locale. - "-fn" commandline switch and *.font ressource accepts a comma seperated list of fontnames: