[maemo-users] COMPLETE newbie with some questions.

[From: Jonathan Hudson]

On Wed, 3 Dec 2008 01:53:30 -0500, hendrik at topoi.pooq.com wrote:

>On Tue, Dec 02, 2008 at 07:18:23AM -0500, Screamin Ike wrote:

>> I'm also under the assumption
>> that said terminal would have full unicode support
>
>This I don't know.  I suspect it doesn't out-of-the-box, because the 
>bitmaps for a full unicode character set is *huge*.  But I do believe it 
>uses UTF-8 as its normal character code (can anyone confirm this?)
>

The terminal (osso_term) allows a number of encodings, one of which is
UTF-8 (a Unicode encoding). If your font supports the necessary code
points, then UTF-8 encoded text will be displayed correctly. For
example, using the default Monospace font, mixed English, Arabic and
Kanji text can be displayed (I just happened to have a file containing
these three scripts in UTF-8).

-jh