On Thu, 1 Jan 2004, Simon Perreault wrote: > On January 1, 2004 18:08, Krikket wrote: > > The KDE terminal is nice, but lacking in > > changing alphabets... > > What do you mean? For example: I'm learning Russian. Unicode is good to use, if the other person is using Unicode. The problem is, odds are they aren't. If it's email, more than likely they'll be using KOI8-R. (That's the standard for email. I'm sure there are some RFCs you can look up if you want.) Unless they're a clueless user on a Windows machine (Yes, M$ ignored the standards yet again...), then there's a good chance that they'll be using W-1251. KOI8-R, W-1251, and Unicode (UTF-8) are *not* compatable for viewing cyrillic characters. So I need to switch fonts to display the alphabet correctly. This needs to be able to done on the fly -- it's not practical to have to log out of my ssh session to load another terminal with the correct cyrillic font, ssh back, read the email, and then log back out so I can load my default fonts. Gnome-Terminal is *wonderful* for this. Click on (IIRC) view, character sets, and then choose the correct set. Hit <CTRL-L> to refresh the screen, and you can now read the odd font. And flipping back is just as easy. Krikket
