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- From: arnet@hpcupt1.cup.hp.com (Arne Thormodsen)
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 18:02:45 GMT
- Subject: Re: Why doesn't the hpterm have resizable text?
- Message-ID: <141770005@hpcupt1.cup.hp.com>
- Organization: Hewlett Packard, Cupertino
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- References: <1992Nov13.144639.19808@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
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- >Only thing I can think of using NLS for would be catalogues. And it would
-
- How about data entry (input methods) for non-European languages ?
-
- >be a small fix to enable this for XTerm too.
- >
- >Another gripe with HPterm is that it seems to hinder you from using a font
- >with a different encoding than roman8 (yes I know about the *roman8
- >resource, it's kludgy), maybe this is a feature with Motif, I'm not sure.
- >Why does it care about the encoding?
- >
- >Also, hpterm let's you specify a keyboard language. Well, it's nice but
- >shouldn't this kind of behaviour be in the X server? xkeycaps and xmodmap
- >does everything I need. (i.e. I can switch between a norwegian keyboard
- >and an american by pressing a key (runs xmodmap on a file generated by
- >xkeycaps), and it works for all applications).
-
- I am not the owner of this product, but I do feel obliged to defend it a
- bit.
-
- HPTerm easily and intuitively supports ALL fonts, keyboards and input
- methods for ALL languages HP supplies. I (right now, as I write) have
- ROMAN8, ISO8859-1 and JIS0208 (Japanese) HPTerm windows running
- simutaneously. HPTerm automatically invokes the appropriate input
- method for Asian languages based on the keyboard ID. It also has the
- unusual ability to support BOTH currently popular Japanese encodings of
- JIS0208 at once. (XTerm is still in the process of recognising that not
- everyone in the world speaks English!)
-
- XTerm is a toy application that has had a few hacks added to it to make
- it marginally useful in 8-bit environments. There are also non-
- compatible hacks to make it work in Japan. This is NOT a commercial
- quality piece of software! When XTerm becomes a true, fully-
- functional terminal emulator (it will, I'm not trashing it, just
- pointing out its current weaknesses) I suspect it will be on the order
- of the size of HPTerm and have comparable performance. Currently XTerm
- is smaller and faster because it does *much* less.
-
- --arne
-
- CSO Internationalization
- Hewlett-Packard
-
- DISCLAIMER: The above opinions are absolutely my own! They do not
- represent any position or view of the Hewlett-Packard Company. (In
- fact, some of the folks around here might whack me for saying what I've
- said :-).
-