Lightweight terminal emulator?

[Grant Edwards]

On 2005-09-15, Lee Braiden <lee_b at digitalunleashed.com> 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.

I know.  But there are still apps that I use daily that don't
support it.  Mainly aterm.

> As for not wanting it... all modern Operating Systems use
> unicode.  It's=20 inescapable these days, and it usually makes
> life simpler.  By comparison,= =20 more limited encodings are
> basically just hacks from when computers couldn'= t=20 handle
> the range of human languages.

Doesn't anybody send e-mail in plain ascii anymore?

> I'd suggest going with a unicode terminal, and then posting
> about the actua= l=20 problem you're having with a unicode
> system and your need for ISO-8859-1. = =20 =46or instance, in
> the modern editors for KDE and GNOME,

I don't use KDE or GNOME.  They both requier more CPU and
memory than I have on some of my machines.

> you can easily cho= ose=20 to save in ISO-8859-1 rather than
> Unicode.  However, if you *really must* d= o=20 use ISO-8859-1
> system-wide, for some reason I find impossible to imagine,=20
> then I suspect Ubuntu will support it just fine, as Debian
> does.

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