Please help test "xcin" on Alpha. :-)

[Anthony Fok <foka@ualberta.ca>]

Hello,

Over the holidays, I have been in contact with the main upstream author
of XCIN (X Chinese INput server?) Tung-Han Hsieh and other Chinese
Linux software developers, discussing about adding Chinese support to
Debian, etc.

Anyway, he mentioned that he has a friend who has been experiencing
some problems with XCIN running on Red Hat Alpha.  Tung-Han could not
test the problem as he does not have access to an Alpha.  His friend
isn't sure either; he just notices that XCIN often crashes with
"segmentation fault" and suspect that it might have something to do
with Alpha's 64-bit architecture.

If any of you Debian-Alpha users or developers could try out
xcin_2.3.02 or xcin_2.3.03 (the latter needs rxvt_2.4.5-15),
that would be absolutely wonderful.  :-)  Of course, it would probably
be easier if you know Chinese, but if you feel adventurous, please feel
free to try it out too.  :-)  Tung-Han suggested testing the "tsin"
(Tsi2 Yin1 or "Ci2yin1") input method to hunt the potential bug.  :-)

Thanks a million!  :-)

Anthony

The following forwarded message is in Big5 Chinese encoding.  You will
need to use xcin/crxvt to read it.  :-)

----- Forwarded message from Tung-Han Hsieh <thhsieh@twcpro.phys.ntu.edu.tw> -----

Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1998 13:23:33 +0800
From: Tung-Han Hsieh <thhsieh@twcpro.phys.ntu.edu.tw>
To: Anthony Fok <foka@ualberta.ca>
Subject: Re: A patch for xcin 2.3.03
X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.2

On Tue, Dec 22, 1998 at 10:11:39PM -0700, Anthony Fok wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 23, 1998 at 09:41:08AM +0800, Tung-Han Hsieh wrote:
> > 對了，突然想到， Debian 有沒有 Alpha 移植組? 能不能請他們試一下 xcin
> > 在 Alpha 上是否有問題? 我聽一位使用 RedHat Alpha 的朋友說， xcin 在
> > RedHat Alpha 上不正常，但因為我一直無法使用 Alpha 的機器，所以不知道
> > 是什麼樣的問題? 問題在那裏? 如果可能的話，能不能請他們幫忙試一下，然
> > 後再將問題告訴我? 
> 
> 　　有，Debian 有 sparc, alpha, m68k, i386, hurd-i386, arm 等平台的
> 移植小組，只是不知他們懂不懂中文。 ^_^  請問您的朋友遇到什麼的問題？
> 哪個版本？我可以在 Debian 的 mailing list 上問問。
> 
> 　　東東

他遇到什麼樣的問題不清楚，只知道常常會 Segmentation fault, 
他懷疑可能跟 Alpha 是 64 bits 平臺有關。

他用的版本是 xcin-2.3.02, 這個 2.3.03 可能還沒用過，但基本上改過的
code 應該不多。如果可以的話，可以請用 alpha 且懂中文的朋友，試試
詞音輸入法的部分，看有沒有問題。


----- End forwarded message -----

-- 
Anthony Fok Tung-Ling                Civil and Environmental Engineering
foka@ualberta.ca, foka@debian.org    University of Alberta, Canada
anthony_fok@catholic.org             Keep smiling!  *^_^*
Come visit Our Lady of Victory Camp -- http://olvc.home.ml.org/
                                    or http://www.ualberta.ca/~foka/OLVC/