FS#29923 - [rxvt-unicode] consider building with --enable-unicode3 for full unicode coverage

Attached to Project: Community Packages
Opened by Daniel Micay (thestinger) - Thursday, 17 May 2012, 08:14 GMT
Last edited by Sébastien Luttringer (seblu) - Sunday, 27 May 2012, 16:10 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category Packages
Status Closed
Assigned To Sébastien Luttringer (seblu)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 2
Private No

Details

At the moment, the rxvt-unicode package in [community] uses UCS2, which is just a subset of unicode (it can display a bit over 65k unicode characters, and there are over 110k). Compiling with --enable-unicode3 switches to UCS4 and all characters can be displayed.

The price to pay is that turning on the switch will increase the overhead per cell in scrollback from 6 bytes to 8.[1]

Other software in Arch is built with full support for internationalization (python has the same UCS2 vs UCS4 switch, etc.) so in my opinion it makes sense to enable it.

[1] http://pod.tst.eu/http://cvs.schmorp.de/rxvt-unicode/doc/rxvt.7.pod#CONFIGURE_OPTIONS
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Closed by  Sébastien Luttringer (seblu)
Sunday, 27 May 2012, 16:10 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  rxvt-unicode 9.15-3
Comment by Sébastien Luttringer (seblu) - Thursday, 24 May 2012, 23:03 GMT
now on staging. Will be released with perl 5.16 move.

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