Lightweight terminal emulator?

[Grant Edwards]

On 2005-09-15, Colin Watson <cjwatson at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 03:05:38AM +0000, Grant Edwards wrote:
>> But, ubuntu doesn't appear to have any of the "misc" bitmapped
>> fonts in UTF encoding.  They're all there, but they're all
>> ISO-8859-1 encoding, but the whole distro is UTF8-only.
>
> It just isn't true that Ubuntu is UTF-8-only. We only enable UTF-8 *by
> default*, true, but 'sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales' and you can turn on
> whatever legacy locales you like.

Cool.  I guess I misunderstood the Wiki pages.

> As for terminal emulators, I like pterm. It has its quirks and
> some bugs I really ought to get round to fixing (particularly
> the Home/End business - I've got used to using C-a and C-e
> instead), but it's pretty small and quick.

Thanks, I'll take a look.

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