The Unicode HOWTO
Bruno Haible,
<haible@clisp.cons.org>
v0.12, 19 October 1999
This document describes how to change your Linux system so it uses UTF-8 as text encoding. - This is work in progress. Any tips, patches, pointers, URLs are very welcome.
1.
Introduction
1.1 Why Unicode?
1.2 Unicode encodings
1.3 Related resources
2.
Display setup
2.1 Linux console
2.2 X11 Foreign fonts
2.3 X11 Unicode fonts
2.4 Unicode xterm
2.5 Miscellaneous
3.
Locale setup
3.1 Files & the kernel
3.2 Ttys & the kernel
3.3 General data conversion
3.4 Locale environment variables
3.5 Creating the locale support files
3.6 Adding support to the C library
3.7 Converting the message catalogs
4.
Specific applications
4.1 Networking
4.2 Browsers
4.3 Editors
4.4 Mailers
4.5 Other text-mode applications
4.6 Other X11 applications
5.
Making your programs Unicode aware
5.1 C/C++
5.2 Java
5.3 Lisp
5.4 Ada95
