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http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/unicode.html#activate feels strongly that it should be easy to make _all_ your applications work in UTF-8 mode, without having to remember a switch for each one. Every application should simply note a UTF-8 locale setting and switch into UTF-8 mode automatically. Therefore, for the Unix port only, there's now a checkbox, enabled by default, which causes the drop-down Translation box to be overridden if the locale indicates UTF-8. Anyone who doesn't like this, or doesn't like MGK, is welcome to turn it straight back off. I'm not _completely_ convinced by MGK's argument myself; for xterm/pterm to do _useful_ UTF-8 you also need to specify a decently Unicode-capable font, and there's no way _that_ can be automagically done on noticing a locale setting. But it's a de facto standard (i.e. xterm does it :-) so I might as well at least be _able_ to support it. [originally from svn r4648]