Unicode UTF-8 UTF 10646-1

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Ligo arga to skefthka alla skeftika na afhsw ligo to iso 8859-7 kai na
dokimasw ti mporei na kanei to unicode. Meta apo ligo psaksimo yparxei
mia sebasth leitourgikothta edw, par'ola ayta exw kapoies erwthseis kai
kapoia problhmatakia.

Kat'arxhn kati ameso, 8etontas sto mutt sending charset 8859-7 
- opws tora - logika den yparxei problima se ena 8859-7 xterm. 8etontas
ws sending charset UTF-8 apo ena UTF-8 xterm, perimena problima apo ena
8859-7 xterm, alla den yphrxe. Giati?

Se ena UTF-8 xterm poy grafo ena text me vim, me ena 8859-7 xterm to
text einai xalasmeno. ayto akoygetai logikotero. (Ta agglika giati
diabazontai BTW;)

Gia na kleiso me ayto, exo thn entypwsh einai ligo problhma to grapsimo
utf texts gia "global compatibility" Yparxei kati poy den lambano ypopsin
moy;

Tora se kapoia pio amesa problimata. Einai monimi katastasi se UTF
periballon to oti ta non-UTF fonts den doyleyoyn; Dioti mporei na mporw
na treksw to lala me "LANG=el_GR lala" anti toy el_GR.UTF-8 alla oso
na'nai ayto einai ligo messy kai kapoia pragmata den "ksanatrexoyn" syxna
opws to window manager. Pantos ean ayto einai monimi katastash kai kati
den moy diafeygei, einai logos gia na iparxei monima to 8859-7.
Skeftomai tora oti isos ayto mporei na ginei mesw toy windowmanager kai
pros to paron trexo windowmaker. isos me kapoio window manager me
kalyterh utf ypostiriksh na kalyptetai ayto. Ali8eyei;

Kai ayto poy pragmatika "den doyleyei": den mporesa na kano ta gtk apps
na doyn ellinika kan. Bazontas oti ISO10646-1 brika mprosta moy sto
gtkrc, amesa h' me to 'switch', akoma kai to idio to switch edikse
"tetragonakia". to gimp episis(sta menu toy, den koitaksa kan ti ginetai
sta text tools). ekana comment arxeia sxetizomena sto /etc/gtk gia na eimai
sigoyros pws den pernei kati apo kei alla tpt. To gtk einai ekdosi 1.2 edo,
alla de pisteyo na min ypostirizei unicode. btw, to xmms episis exi
problimata (1.7.2) to opoio me windos ttfs htan beauty.

Ayth th stigmh eimai anapofasistos gia to an gyrisw sto 8859-7. To
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/examples/UTF-8-demo.txt einai
pragmatika entypwsiako se ena xterm kai diskola afineis kati tetio na
paei xameno. 

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