First draft of Unicode support in pterm. It's pretty complete: it

does UTF-8 copy and paste (falling back to normal strings if
necessary), it understands X font encodings and translates things
accordingly so that if you have a Unicode font you can ask for
virtually any single-byte encoding and get it (Mac-Roman pterm,
anyone?), and so on. There's work left to be done (wide fonts for
CJK spring to mind), but I reckon this is a pretty good start.

[originally from svn r2395]

charset/README

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+This subdirectory contains a general character-set conversion
+library, used in the Unix port of PuTTY, and available for use in
+other ports if it should happen to be useful.
+
+I intend to use this same library in other programs at some future
+date. It is therefore a _strong_ design goal that this library
+should remain perfectly general, and not tied to particulars of
+PuTTY. It must not reference any code outside its own subdirectory;
+it should not have PuTTY-specific helper routines added to it unless
+they can be documented in a general manner which might make them
+useful in other circumstances as well.