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Any rxvt-Sized Unicode-Aware Terminal Emulators?

Posted by Cliff on from the evolution-of-the-terminal-window dept.

Viqsi writes "Just on a lark, I started a short while back to try to convert my environment totally to UTF-8. One of the big hangups that I've run into so far, however, is my X terminal emulator. I've been very happy with rxvt (I tend to have several $XTERMs open at once, so Low Memory is Good!), but it doesn't seem to support anything Unicode. A bit of searching has turned up nothing that isn't as big as or larger than xterm itself. So, the question -- are there any low-memory terminal emulators that support UTF-8, or any other Unicode encoding? (tabbed-window style terminals Don't Count, and that goes double for Konsole!)"

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  1. Re:Why yourself by keesh · · Score: 3, Insightful
    But it's hard to see why a kernel hacker needs more than 2^7 characters.


    Or more than 640KBytes of RAM. Or more than a 33MHz processor. For that matter, why do they need both uppercase and lowercase? Why do they want monitors? What's wrong with a VT100?

    The days of "sorry, no accents or unAmerican characters" are over. Unicode support at every level would be a big help for non-US-English development.
  2. freshmeat has many.... by therealmoose · · Score: 5, Insightful
    http://freshmeat.net/browse/158/?topic_id=158

    Ask slashdot is becoming increasing ridiculous, with the answer to almost every question found at either google or within OSDN. I don't mean to flame the editors, but it would be good if they would be a little more selective WRT ask slashdot.

  3. Why so many xterms? by zeda · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Memory is cheap, why worry.

    Using screen also helps.

  4. Just try Konsole instead. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    I know you said Konsole is out, and I can understand why. It does eat up quite a bit of memory initially. And yea you dont like it being tabbed, but it just takes a little getting use to. Every new "tab" in Konsole eats up less memory than Bash does. Give it a shot for 1 week.

    The shortcut for switching between console is is LShift+RArrow for going to the next console and LShift+LArrow for going to the previous console.

    You can name your consoles which is VEY handy. I frequently have 5-6 consoles open and name every one of them. It really helps. A little extra benifit of Konsole is that you can have customized profiles. One for Bash, one for ZSH, one for Midnight Commander, one for ...

    I didn't like it a lot at first but I grew to love it. Now I cant stand terminal programs that aren't like it.

    Mikey likes it.