Lightweight terminal emulator?

[Lee Braiden]

On Thursday 15 September 2005 04:00, Grant Edwards wrote:
> rxvt doesn't support UTF-8 either.  I've never liked xterms
> scrollbar, and it's pretty heavyweight by my standards.

> But I _don't_ want unicode. I want ISO-8859-1, but Ubuntu
> doesn't support ISO-8859-1.

UTF-8 *is* a Unicode encoding.

As for not wanting it... all modern Operating Systems use unicode.  It's 
inescapable these days, and it usually makes life simpler.  By comparison, 
more limited encodings are basically just hacks from when computers couldn't 
handle the range of human languages.

I'd suggest going with a unicode terminal, and then posting about the actual 
problem you're having with a unicode system and your need for ISO-8859-1.  
For instance, in the modern editors for KDE and GNOME, you can easily choose 
to save in ISO-8859-1 rather than Unicode.  However, if you *really must* do 
use ISO-8859-1 system-wide, for some reason I find impossible to imagine, 
then I suspect Ubuntu will support it just fine, as Debian does.

-- 
Lee Braiden
http://www.DigitalUnleashed.com
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