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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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