<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2 Final//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="SGML-Tools 1.0.9"> <TITLE>The Unicode HOWTO</TITLE> <LINK HREF="Unicode-HOWTO-1.html" REL=next> </HEAD> <BODY> <A HREF="Unicode-HOWTO-1.html">Next</A> Previous Contents <HR> <H1>The Unicode HOWTO</H1> <H2>Bruno Haible, <A HREF="mailto:haible@clisp.cons.org"><haible@clisp.cons.org></A></H2>v1.0, 23 January 2001 <P><HR> <EM>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.</EM> <HR> <P> <H2><A NAME="toc1">1.</A> <A HREF="Unicode-HOWTO-1.html">Introduction</A></H2> <UL> <LI><A HREF="Unicode-HOWTO-1.html#ss1.1">1.1 Why Unicode?</A> <LI><A HREF="Unicode-HOWTO-1.html#ss1.2">1.2 Unicode encodings</A> <LI><A HREF="Unicode-HOWTO-1.html#ss1.3">1.3 Related resources</A> </UL> <P> <H2><A NAME="toc2">2.</A> <A HREF="Unicode-HOWTO-2.html">Display setup</A></H2> <UL> <LI><A HREF="Unicode-HOWTO-2.html#ss2.1">2.1 Linux console</A> <LI><A HREF="Unicode-HOWTO-2.html#ss2.2">2.2 X11 Foreign fonts</A> <LI><A HREF="Unicode-HOWTO-2.html#ss2.3">2.3 X11 Unicode fonts</A> <LI><A HREF="Unicode-HOWTO-2.html#ss2.4">2.4 Unicode xterm</A> <LI><A HREF="Unicode-HOWTO-2.html#ss2.5">2.5 TrueType fonts</A> <LI><A HREF="Unicode-HOWTO-2.html#ss2.6">2.6 Miscellaneous</A> </UL> <P> <H2><A NAME="toc3">3.</A> <A HREF="Unicode-HOWTO-3.html">Locale setup</A></H2> <UL> <LI><A HREF="Unicode-HOWTO-3.html#ss3.1">3.1 Files & the kernel</A> <LI><A HREF="Unicode-HOWTO-3.html#ss3.2">3.2 Upgrading the C library</A> <LI><A HREF="Unicode-HOWTO-3.html#ss3.3">3.3 General data conversion</A> <LI><A HREF="Unicode-HOWTO-3.html#ss3.4">3.4 Locale environment variables</A> <LI><A HREF="Unicode-HOWTO-3.html#ss3.5">3.5 Creating the locale support files</A> </UL> <P> <H2><A NAME="toc4">4.</A> <A HREF="Unicode-HOWTO-4.html">Specific applications</A></H2> <UL> <LI><A HREF="Unicode-HOWTO-4.html#ss4.1">4.1 Shells</A> <LI><A HREF="Unicode-HOWTO-4.html#ss4.2">4.2 Networking</A> <LI><A HREF="Unicode-HOWTO-4.html#ss4.3">4.3 Browsers</A> <LI><A HREF="Unicode-HOWTO-4.html#ss4.4">4.4 Editors</A> <LI><A HREF="Unicode-HOWTO-4.html#ss4.5">4.5 Mailers</A> <LI><A HREF="Unicode-HOWTO-4.html#ss4.6">4.6 Text processing</A> <LI><A HREF="Unicode-HOWTO-4.html#ss4.7">4.7 Databases</A> <LI><A HREF="Unicode-HOWTO-4.html#ss4.8">4.8 Other text-mode applications</A> <LI><A HREF="Unicode-HOWTO-4.html#ss4.9">4.9 Other X11 applications</A> </UL> <P> <H2><A NAME="toc5">5.</A> <A HREF="Unicode-HOWTO-5.html">Printing</A></H2> <UL> <LI><A HREF="Unicode-HOWTO-5.html#ss5.1">5.1 Printing using TrueType fonts</A> <LI><A HREF="Unicode-HOWTO-5.html#ss5.2">5.2 Printing using fixed-size fonts</A> <LI><A HREF="Unicode-HOWTO-5.html#ss5.3">5.3 The classical approach</A> <LI><A HREF="Unicode-HOWTO-5.html#ss5.4">5.4 No luck with...</A> </UL> <P> <H2><A NAME="toc6">6.</A> <A HREF="Unicode-HOWTO-6.html">Making your programs Unicode aware</A></H2> <UL> <LI><A HREF="Unicode-HOWTO-6.html#ss6.1">6.1 C/C++</A> <LI><A HREF="Unicode-HOWTO-6.html#ss6.2">6.2 Java</A> <LI><A HREF="Unicode-HOWTO-6.html#ss6.3">6.3 Lisp</A> <LI><A HREF="Unicode-HOWTO-6.html#ss6.4">6.4 Ada95</A> <LI><A HREF="Unicode-HOWTO-6.html#ss6.5">6.5 Python</A> <LI><A HREF="Unicode-HOWTO-6.html#ss6.6">6.6 JavaScript/ECMAscript</A> <LI><A HREF="Unicode-HOWTO-6.html#ss6.7">6.7 Tcl</A> <LI><A HREF="Unicode-HOWTO-6.html#ss6.8">6.8 Perl</A> <LI><A HREF="Unicode-HOWTO-6.html#ss6.9">6.9 Related reading</A> </UL> <P> <H2><A NAME="toc7">7.</A> <A HREF="Unicode-HOWTO-7.html">Other sources of information</A></H2> <UL> <LI><A HREF="Unicode-HOWTO-7.html#ss7.1">7.1 Mailing lists</A> </UL> <HR> <A HREF="Unicode-HOWTO-1.html">Next</A> Previous Contents </BODY> </HTML>