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diff --git a/README.unicode b/README.unicode
index 1d2c90e6c3b3d11d7c4cc0a00d3c1d5bb5ef2412..4f7aef342bce5165a1928abde9c450c84d43df9a 100644 (file)
--- a/README.unicode
+++ b/README.unicode
@@ -6,12 +6,17 @@ Sketchy overview of the details:
 - the options used in the ./reconf script should work. everything else
   might be broken.
 
-- wchar_t MUST be UNICODE or ISO-10646-1 on your system, or various
-  things will break down. On GNU/Linux, this is true, on Solaris,
-  this is true only for "@ucs" locales, but you should have plenty of them.
+- wchar_t MUST be UNICODE or ISO-10646-1 on your system, or various things
+  will break down. On GNU/Linux, this is true, on Solaris, this is true
+  only for "@ucs" locales, but you should have plenty of them.
 
-- rxvt ALWAYS expects utf-8 input, regardless of the locale, currently.
-  so only start it in a utf-8-locale: "LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 rxvt" etc..
+- rxvt will use unicode internally, but does input/output in the current
+  locale. so get a utf-8 terminal, use "LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 rxvt" or
+  equivalent.
+
+- you can specify a different locale to be used for your input method
+  using the imLocale ressource or switch, e.g.:
+  LC_CTYPE=ja_JP.UTF-8 rxvt -imlocale ja_JP.EUC-JP
 
 - "-fn" commandline switch and *.font ressource accepts a comma
   seperated list of fontnames:
@@ -21,9 +26,9 @@ Sketchy overview of the details:
   xft:Andale Mono              a xft font
   xft:Andale Mono:pixelsize=20
 
-- the _first_ font in the list selects the cell width/height. All other fonts
-  must be smaller or same sized, or they will be ignored or worse. xft fonts
-  will automatically be rescaled.
+- the _first_ font in the list selects the cell width/height. All other
+  fonts must be smaller or same sized, or they will be ignored or worse.
+  xft fonts will automatically be rescaled.
 
 - the fonts will be tried in the order given when searching for a font
   to display a specific character. if you are e.g. mainly interested in
@@ -32,10 +37,12 @@ Sketchy overview of the details:
   only want to display other characters you should put a ascii/is8859 text
   font first (e.g. "9x15bold") and let rxvt sort it out.
 
-- xft fonts require gobs of memory and generally are slow
+- xft fonts require gobs of memory and generally are slow. try not to
+  antialias them ("Font:antialias=false") when possible. Often looks better,
+  too.
 
-- src/defaultfont.C lists the fallback fonts that are tried when a character cannot
-  be displayed with the current list of fonts.
+- src/defaultfont.C lists the fallback fonts that are tried when a
+  character cannot be displayed with the current list of fonts.
 
 Marc <rxvt@plan9.de>