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The Unicode HOWTO

Bruno Haible, <haible@clisp.cons.org>

v1.0, 23 January 2001


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 TrueType fonts
  • 2.6 Miscellaneous

3. Locale setup

  • 3.1 Files & the kernel
  • 3.2 Upgrading the C library
  • 3.3 General data conversion
  • 3.4 Locale environment variables
  • 3.5 Creating the locale support files

4. Specific applications

  • 4.1 Shells
  • 4.2 Networking
  • 4.3 Browsers
  • 4.4 Editors
  • 4.5 Mailers
  • 4.6 Text processing
  • 4.7 Databases
  • 4.8 Other text-mode applications
  • 4.9 Other X11 applications

5. Printing

  • 5.1 Printing using TrueType fonts
  • 5.2 Printing using fixed-size fonts
  • 5.3 The classical approach
  • 5.4 No luck with...

6. Making your programs Unicode aware

  • 6.1 C/C++
  • 6.2 Java
  • 6.3 Lisp
  • 6.4 Ada95
  • 6.5 Python
  • 6.6 JavaScript/ECMAscript
  • 6.7 Tcl
  • 6.8 Perl
  • 6.9 Related reading

7. Other sources of information

  • 7.1 Mailing lists

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