On Monday, 28 June 2004, at 14:28:39 (-0400), Bradley Reed wrote: > I use Eterm in Slackware which dropped enlightenment and Eterm long ago.
Well, Slackware's a whole different ballgame. I'll spare you my Slackware rant. :-) > I can see SUSE's point. More and more distros are supporting UTF-8 > and need UTF-8 support in their terminal emulators. Distros are not > just for western European languages anymore. People do want to type > in Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, etc. I understand that. Of course, Eterm has supported Japanese, Chinese, and Korean for some time now. Just not UTF-8. I don't really know much about UTF-8 and iconv(). A few people have offered to write a patch, but no one actually has. So any help is greatly appreciated! > Eterm development does seem a bit stagnant. Is CVS still unchanged > since the 0.9.2 release last year? That at least is the implication > on www.eterm.org. I do need to update that damned box. :( > ((I see browsing cvs that there have been a few changes, one on June > 25th, one in May, a few in April, but it does seem like development > is not really active)) My attention has been focused more on work, cAos, and Mezzanine. 0.9.3 will be out real soon though. > Perhaps you need to express to them how Eterm is better than the > xTerms they are keeping. Of course that may be hard without UTF-8 > support. Patches welcome! Requested, in fact! Even begged for! :) Michael -- Michael Jennings (a.k.a. KainX) http://www.kainx.org/ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> n + 1, Inc., http://www.nplus1.net/ Author, Eterm (www.eterm.org) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- "You can accomplish much if you don't care who gets the credit." -- Ronald Reagan ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email sponsored by Black Hat Briefings & Training. Attend Black Hat Briefings & Training, Las Vegas July 24-29 - digital self defense, top technical experts, no vendor pitches, unmatched networking opportunities. Visit www.blackhat.com _______________________________________________ enlightenment-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users
