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On Sun, 07 Aug 2005 12:24:35 +0200 Jan Kundrát <jkt@g.o> wrote:
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| > Hrm, we can't mess with encoding without breaking things for people
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| > using silly terminals (like aterm, gnome-terminal and konsole) that
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| > lie about their $TERM.
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| My konsole reports "xterm"; what's wrong with that?
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konsole is not an xterm. xterm is capable of handling all kinds of
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termcap sequences that konsole is not. By lying about its term name,
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konsole is making things very hard for people who write applications
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which can make use of these sequences -- should the app assume that
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xterm means "I am a real xterm" or "I am some lame terminal pretending
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to be xterm"? The former screws over non-xterm users, the latter screws
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over xterm users.
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--
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Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Shell tools, Fluxbox, Cron)
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Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org
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Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm |
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