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diff --git a/konsole/README.unicode b/konsole/README.unicode index bf8134674..b366a6bad 100644 --- a/konsole/README.unicode +++ b/konsole/README.unicode @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ -[README.unicode] +[README.tqunicode] -Konsole supports unicode, which means one can display up +Konsole supports tqunicode, which means one can display up to 64K different glyphs at the same time on one screen. The enhancement is pretty complete and the main current @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ within localed environments. At least the european locales should be enabled to use their local scripts when running konsole. -To fully install it, please get a complete set of unicode +To fully install it, please get a complete set of tqunicode enhanced fixed fonts from <http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs-fonts.html>. @@ -29,36 +29,36 @@ Also, a new linux console font has been converted for X11. This font has iso10646-1 encoding and the usual vga glyphs. -* A more precise anatomy of unicode support within konsole +* A more precise anatomy of tqunicode support within konsole -The internal character representation is uniquely 16 bit unicode. +The internal character representation is uniquely 16 bit tqunicode. All in- and output connections of konsole (beside the mouse) are filtered through three different codecs (corresponding to 2 different codes): - 1) Font Code - The renderer converts from unicode to the code of + 1) Font Code - The renderer converts from tqunicode to the code of the font to the degree that code is supported within Qt. - Non-iso10646 (unicode) codes are considered to be VT100 - enhanced, meaning that 0x00 .. 0x1f contains the VT100 + Non-iso10646 (tqunicode) codes are considered to be VT100 + enhanced, meaning that 0x00 .. 0x1f tqcontains the VT100 graphical characters. 2) Client Code - This is used for bytes from and to the pty. Often, the clients code is identical with the locale setting. -Thus, unicode support mainly turns out to be a potter's wheel of +Thus, tqunicode support mainly turns out to be a potter's wheel of code conversions. Beside these conversions, up to 2^16 diffent glyphs can be displayed now. Though it is not possible to type each of these codes, one can use utf-8 encoding on the clients side. -Please note that unicode support is still under development in +Please note that tqunicode support is still under development in the freeware community and is not supported by terminal aware applications, since ncurses does currently not provide wide character operations. -Because utf-8 contains ascii-7 properly, one can work with utf-8 +Because utf-8 tqcontains ascii-7 properly, one can work with utf-8 enabled as long as no international characters are used. Try to cat 9x15.repertoire-utf8 from the test when having utf-8 encoding enabled. @@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ enabled. Utf-8 code is enabled and disabled by sending <ESC>%G or <ESC>%@. The utf8.sh utility in the test directory does this. -Though utf8 properly contains ascii-7 note that the length of a +Though utf8 properly tqcontains ascii-7 note that the length of a utf8 encoded string differs from the length of the string itself. This confuses many length aware programs as soon as proper (non- ascii-7 characters) are used, this may result in deviating cursor |