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-mlterm is a multilingual X11 terminal emulator. It supports
-different character sets, encondings and complex characters.
+mlterm is a multilingual X11 terminal emulator. It supports different
+character sets, automatic selection of proper enconding, complex
+characters such as double width for East Asian and bi-direction for
+Arabic and Hebrew.
-mlterm is optionally dependent upon the following libraries:
+For ISCII rendering mlterm is dependent upon the libind library.
+To compile the package with libind support add "--enable-ind"
+to the configure options in the build script.
-- fribidi (for bidirectional rendering)
-http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/FriBidi
-
-- libind (for ISCII rendering)
-http://www.rxvt-idev.freeservers.com/
-
-If fribidi and libind have been installed on your system
-you can enable the support by adding the following
-compilation options to mlterm.slackbuild:
-
- --enable-fribidi
- --enable-ind
+To use anti-aliased fonts select XfreeType rather than xcore, run the
+script as follows: FONT_ENGINE=xft ./mlterm.SlackBuild