                             RELEASE NOTE
              Internationalization patch for X Terminal Emulator
                    Jiro SEKIBA <jir@li18nux.org>


* What's this? 

   This is a patch for the xterm of X11 release 6.5.1 to fix its
  internationalization defects. This patch enables xterm to handle
  whatever the character set encodings and scripts support underlining
  operating system supports via the technology called CSI(Code Set
  Independence) and XOM(X Output Method). Traditionally, several
  X terminal emulators which are hard-wired to specific languages and
  encodings were introduced to support local language requirements, such
  as kterm, hanterm, cxterm, UTF-8 xterm and so on. This  truly
  internationalized terminal emulator supersedes the needs of those
  multiple locale specific terminalemulators. 

* Requirement

   You need original sources of xterm of X11R6.5.1.
  You can download X11 from http://www.x.org/.
  Or you can retrive entire source via CVS from www.li18nux.org.

* Install

   After you unpack X11, you go into the directory  you
  unpacked xterm in.  Then you just apply this patch as follow..

$ cd <somwhere_xterm_in>
$ patch -p1 < xterm.patch-<version number>

   After that, do compilation and installation according to the
 document included in X11 source tree, such is like "xmkmf",
 "make" and "make install".  You may also need to compile 
 terminfo by "tic".

$ tic terminfo

* Known Bugs

 - occasionally crashes when reading invalid character code
 - Does not support pasting into kterm.

 -Does not work on UTF-8 locales if you use vanilla XFree86 4.0.x
  due to the inability of XFree86 4.0.x of handling XLC_LOCALE
  for UTF-8.
  Furthermore you can input any UTF-8 byte stream by IIIMF.
  To do that you need internationalized X libraries.  Check the web
    http://www.li18nux.org/cvs/

 - Bash(libreadline) breaks multibyte char into a single byte sometime.
   This can be solved by I18N patch for bash.  Check the web
    http://www.li18nux.org/subgroups/utildev/dli18npatch.html

* ChangeLog
+ since version 0.5
	- fixed a bug of cursor movement breaks multi width column character
	- fixed unable to compile without defining I18N macro
                                 by  MIYASHITA Hisashi <himi@li18nux.org>
+ since version 0.4-20010330
	- I18Ned Operating System Command(<ESC> ])
	- fixed a bug of not storing `0 width code point' in the buffer
  Rests of all are fixed by 
     Suresh Chandrasekharan <sureshc@mpkmail.eng.sun.com>
	- fixed the vttest failure dealing with Test of screen features
	- fixed similar condition which caused the crash when compiled 
	  without I18N defined
	- fixed the core dump when invoked in c locale 
          without the I18N defined
	- fix for erratic input behaviour when compiled 
	  using SparcCompiler -g option
+ since version 0.3-20010323
	- fixed a bug of reverse video problem on Solaris
                    by Suresh Chandrasekharan <sureshc@mpkmail.eng.sun.com>
	- fixed a bug of cursor when window loses focus
                    by Suresh Chandrasekharan <sureshc@mpkmail.eng.sun.com>
	- fixed Imakefile for Solaris
                    by Suresh Chandrasekharan <sureshc@mpkmail.eng.sun.com>
	- fixed Imakefile for AIX 4.3 by Shoji SUGIYAMA <shoji@jp.ibm.com>
+ since version 0.2-20001218
	- fixed a bug of storing multibyte character
	- fixed some memory leak bugs
	- added 3 bits color extension, originally from kterm
+ since version 0.1-20001127
	- fixed a bug dividing multibyte char on the edge
	- fixed a multibyte handling algorithm
	- added better XIM support by Shoji SUGIYAMA <shoji@jp.ibm.com>
