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> what're missing? Nothing. Xterm is awesome! And even if xterm is an older program, it seems to be just as actively developed as gnome-terminal. See the ch
by enriquto 4y ago
> what're missing?
Nothing. Xterm is awesome!
And even if xterm is an older program, it seems to be just as actively developed as gnome-terminal. See the changelogs for each:
https://invisible-island.net/xterm/xterm.log.html https://invisible-island.net/xterm/xterm.log.html
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/vte/-/commits/master https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/vte/-/commits/master
The second link points to libvte, which is the terminal engine behind gnome-terminal where the actual terminalling happens. The changes to gnome-terminal itself are mostly translations and uninteresting desktop stuff:
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-terminal/-/commits/master https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-terminal/-/commits/mast...
- synergy20 4y agolast time I checked xterm can not do utf8 yet
- enriquto 4y agoIt certainly can. Since more than 20 years ago! I remember that in 2003, as a "little kid", I changed my configuration from latin-15 to utf8 and it was already supported. You can read here an explanation of how xterm handled ill-formed utf8 characters in 1999: https://www.invisible-island.net/xterm/bad-utf8/ https://www.invisible-island.net/xterm/bad-utf8/
- synergy20 4y agoyes thanks,utf8 indeed works