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The Unicode HOWTO

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

v1.0, 23 January 2001

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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.

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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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