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• File charset/README — part of check-in [94580ef671] at 2002-12-31 06:20:34 on branch trunk — First draft of Unicode support in pterm. It's pretty complete: it does UTF-8 copy and paste (falling back to normal strings if necessary), it understands X font encodings and translates things accordingly so that if you have a Unicode font you can ask for virtually any single-byte encoding and get it (Mac-Roman pterm, anyone?), and so on. There's work left to be done (wide fonts for CJK spring to mind), but I reckon this is a pretty good start. (user: simon size: 610)

This subdirectory contains a general character-set conversion
library, used in the Unix port of PuTTY, and available for use in
other ports if it should happen to be useful.

I intend to use this same library in other programs at some future
date. It is therefore a _strong_ design goal that this library
should remain perfectly general, and not tied to particulars of
PuTTY. It must not reference any code outside its own subdirectory;
it should not have PuTTY-specific helper routines added to it unless
they can be documented in a general manner which might make them
useful in other circumstances as well.