What UTF-8 enabled applications are already available?
Terminal emulation and communication * xterm as shipped with XFree86 4.0 or higher works correctly in UTF-8 locales if you use an *-iso10646-1 font. Just try it with for example LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 xterm -fn '-Misc-Fixed-Medium-R-Normal–18-120-100-100-C-90-ISO10646-1'. * C-Kermit has supported UTF-8 as the transfer, terminal, and file character set since version 7.0. * mlterm is a multi-lingual terminal emulator that supports UTF-8 among many other encodings, combining characters, XIM. * Edmund Grimley Evans extended the BOGL Linux framebuffer graphics library with UCS font support and built a simple UTF-8 console terminal emulator called bterm with it. Editing and word processing * Vim (a popular clone of the classic vi editor) supports UTF-8 with wide characters and up to two combining characters starting with version 6.0. * Emacs 21.2 provides basic UTF-8 support in the form of a new coding system mule-utf-8. This is expected to improve significantly once ongoing work to c
