DG> What is the best "way" to display unicode charatcers on an intel
DG> platform running redhat Linux???
This is an interesting question, and one that is currently the subject of
much debate.
One possible answer is that you need to use version 2.2 or later of
the C library, version 4.0.3 or later of the XFree86 libraries and
fonts, and run in a UTF-8 locale. Properly internationalised
applications should then be able to do some primitive processing of
Unicode text.
The other answer is that a number of recent applications use Unicode
internally in all locales, and only use the locale's encoding on I/O.
This is the case with the XFree86 version of XTerm when run with the
`-u8' flag, with Mozilla, with KDE 2, and I believe also with
development versions of Gnome. Such applications are likely to have
better support for Unicode rendering (combining characters, contextual
glyph substitution, etc.)
A suitable forum for this sort of discussion is the XFree86 i18n list,
which you should feel welcome to join.
http://www.xfree86.org/mailman/listinfo/i18n
Regards,
Juliusz Chroboczek
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