Re: [tlug] kterm equivalents

[Jim Breen <Jim.Breen@example.com>]

[Michael Smith (Re: [tlug] kterm equivalents) writes:]
>> Jim Breen <Jim.Breen@example.com> writes:
>> 
>> > One aspect of kterm I like, but is not present in Gnome Terminal
>> > (that I can see) is the way if you double-click on a Japanese string
>> > embedded in other text, it just selects the Japanese text. With Gnome
>> > Terminal, the text and adjacent spaces, tabs and punctuation gets
>> > selected as well.
>> >=20
>> > Is there either a way of getting Gnome Terminal to behave properly, or
>> > alternatively, is there an I18Ned terminal which I can use instead which
>> > does the Right Thing?
>> 
>> I have mlterm and just tried testing with a Japanese string
>> embedded as you've described. It seems to behave the way you want.
>> 
>>   http://mlterm.sourceforge.net/

Well, I installed mlterm. It is slightly better than Gnome
terminal in that it doesn't grab (ASCII) spaces abutting Japanese
text, but it does grab parentheses. Clicking on (ひらがな) gets the
( and ) as well as the ひらがな, whereas clicking on (hiragana) just
gets hiragana. Not very helpful, or consistent.

Also, since I have IIIMF running with Gnome Terminal, Firefox, etc. I 
sort-of expected it to be there with mlterm. It wasn't. I tried to
repeat it with the iiimf option turned on in configure, but the 
make blew up, whingeing about a missing "iiimf.h" file. Poking around
the mlterm lists, all I can find is mentions that iiimf seems broken.

Anyone got good advice about building an iiimf-capable mlterm?

>> xterm seems to also

xterm, or at least the version with FDC4 only supports UTF8. I have
far too much EUC and ISO-2022-JP stuff to consider that option.

Thanks

Jim

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