SERA2ANY
========
The sera2any package offers UTF-8 conversion from SERA text into UTF-8:

  ftp://ftp.cs.indiana.edu/pub/fidel/sera2any/

also "gezXfer" is a rapidly growing resource that will convert PC documents
saved in RTF text into UTF-8 text:

  ftp://ftp.cs.indiana.edu/pub/fidel/gezxfer/


National Language Support (NLS)
===============================
Change your error messages into Amharic!  The latest from the project underway
by the Addis Abeba University Computer Science Department can be down loaded
from:

  ftp://ftp.cs.indiana.edu/pub/fidel/linux/nls/


JAVA
====

SelamAlem.java :  Note that in JDK-1.02 for Linux System.out.println was
unable to print Ethiopic UTF text to stdout.  Perhaps this will be corrected
in JDK-1.1.  After numerous permutations writeUTF to a file name was found
to work as shown below:

import java.io.* ;
class SelamAlem {
  public static void main(String args[]) throws IOException {
     DataOutput out = new DataOutputStream( new FileOutputStream("alem.out") ) ;
     out.writeUTF("\u1220\u120B\u121D\u1361\u12D3\u1208\u121D!") ;
  }
}

The Unicode escape string above is not overly practical to type by hand.  Were
the above code written with a 1997 release of Multilingual Emacs and saved with
a .java or .JAVA extension, the conversion to the Unicode escapes is automatic.
The ``sera2any'' resource also offers Java output options.


BASH 1.14+
==========
Bash is becoming increasing multilingual and works well with UTF-8,
some for some additional niceties for your console; try Daniel Yacob's
current command line prompt for his beloved Linux notebook "kokeb":-

PS1='[ያዕቆብ@ኮከብ፥\!] '

in your .bash_profile or .bashrc.  TCSH 6.05+ supports multilingualism
when compiled with the appropriate options, UTF-8 issues have not been tested.


Lynx
====

Lynx 2.7 will support UTF-8 text for web browsing.  You will need to:

  1) set your "Display Character Set" options to "UNICODE UTF 8".
  2) set the "Raw 8-bit Mode" to "ON".

If you do not have Lynx 2.7 you may still be able to browse web pages
in utf-8 encoding.  For current details see the web page:

  http://www.cs.indiana.edu/hyplan/dmulholl/fidel/utf-info.html

