[README.unicode] Konsole now supports unicode, which means one can display up to 64K different glyphs at the same time on one screen. The enhancement is pretty complete and the main current advantage should be more a smooth operation of konsole within localed environments. At least the european locales should be enabled to use their local scripts when running konsole. To fully install it, please get a complete set of unicode enhanced fixed fonts from . These fonts are expected to be distributed with the next X11 release. Konsole distributes part of this font collection for your convenience. Please add the other fonts to your local installation to make best use of the enhancement. Also, a new set of linux console fonts have been converted for X11. These fonts have iso10646-1 encoding and the usual vga glyphs. * A more precise anatomy of unicode support within konsole The internal character representation is uniquely 16 bit unicode. All in- and output connections of konsole (beside the mouse) are filtered through three different codecs (corresponding to 3 different codes): 1) Font Code - The renderer converts from unicode to the code of the font to the degree that code is supported within Qt. Non-iso10646 (unicode) codes are considered to be VT100 enhanced, meaning that 0x00 .. 0x1f contains the VT100 graphical characters. 2) Keyboard Code - Characters typed on the keyboard are converted from the local keyboard code to unicode. 3) Client Code - This is used for bytes from and to the pty. Often, the clients code is identical with the locale setting. Thus, unicode support mainly turns out to be a potter's wheel of code conversions. Beside these conversions, up to 2^16 diffent glyphs can be displayed now. Though it is not possible to type each of these codes, one can use utf-8 encoding on the clients side. Please note that unicode support is still under development in the freeware community and is not supported by terminal aware applications, since ncurses does currently not provide wide character operations. Because utf-8 contains ascii-7 properly, one can work with utf-8 enabled as long as no international characters are used. Try to cat 9x15.repertoire-utf8 from the test when having utf-8 encoding enabled. Utf-8 code is enabled and disabled by sending %G or %@. The utf8.sh utility in the test directory does this. --- Example of non-locale client code. (Discontining Linux Console Support) --- - Konsole comes with a conversion utility, also, that allows to convert arbitrary console (.psf) fonts for use in X11. - Improved font selection?