Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com X-EYOU-ORIGINAL-IP: 202.96.18.129 X-EYOU-ENVELOPE-MAILFROM: lucifer@tsinghua.org.cn Message-ID: <003e01c3a4cf$81d26260$d2c30d0a@nerv> From: "Lucifer" To: References: <1065243481.20031106183822@F1-Photo.com> Subject: Re: terms Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2003 09:36:02 +0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from base64 to 8bit by delorie.com id hA71aOEL023486 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul-Kenji Cahier" To: Sent: Friday, November 07, 2003 1:38 AM Subject: terms > Hello all, > > I've been trying to make other terminals than rxvt work without the X > server but without success yet... The problem of the rxvt that comes > with cygwin is that as the original rxvt it doesnt support special > charsets, and hence cant display correctly japanese characters, or > chinese characters, or russian, etc. The alternative under linux would > be to use either mlterm or rxvt-beta, mlterm being particularly useful > as it allows multiple encoding in a same term. I am using Simplified Chinese version of win2k and I put the following lines in my ~/.Xdefaults: [code] rxvt*font: fixedsys rxvt*boldFont: fixedsys rxvt*mfont: fixedsys rxvt*multibyte_cursor:True rxvt*multichar_encoding:big5 [/code] then the rxvt windows shipped with cygwin can display Chinese characters correctly (just as notepad.exe). However, if I change the rxvt*multichar_encoding line to gb, it cannot display correct gb2312 characters. It is confusing... [snip]