Re: Arphic font, Unicode, fontset and various
ic... But Just some questions about Chinput and Xcin. How do they
compare? How stable are they? And if there are someone kind enough
the patch the xcin and package it. Coz I don't know how and I use xcin
instead of chinput. Thanx
Edwin Lau
On Sun, Dec 09, 2001 at 08:04:17PM +0800, ha shao wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 08:45:06PM +0800, hashao@chinese.com wrote:
> > On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 07:56:19PM -0500, try_email_me@yahoo.ca wrote:
> > > Don't know if it is a FAQ. But just can't get any comprehensive
> > > answer to my question. I just bought unifont Y2K from Arphic (some
> > > unicode, some big and some gb fonts. Now I want to change everything to
> > > Unicode. What do I need to change. Right now I have
> > > LC_CTYPE=zh_TW.big5 and using xtt module (X4.1) and using gnome.
> >
> > Nothing, you just need a unicode input :). Anyone really need
> > a unicode input method? like utf-8? xcin and chinput does not
> > support utf-8 yet.
> >
>
> After spend a whole day on chinput,
> I just realize you can use chinput to input UTF-8. No
> change required. Damn! waste my time.
>
> \Question{
>
> How to input UTF-8 with Chinput and Xcin?
>
> }
> \contributor{ha shao}{hashao@chinese.com}{2001/12/09}
>
> Just set your LC_CTYPE to UTF-8 and Chinput will handle
> the rest. :) It let the X to do the conversion (hints:
> COMPOUND_TEXT).
>
> LC_CTYPE=zh_CN.UTF-8
> or
> LC_CTYPE=zh_TW.UTF-8
>
> Test with gedit, set gedit's font to:
> -default-song-medium-r-normal-*-*-160-*-*-p-*-gb2312.1980-0,-*-ja-18-*-iso10646-1,-*-*
>
> And now you can input your UTF-8.
>
> XCIN too!
> With the attached patch, xcin will do the same thing. Cool, huh?
>
> --
> Best regard
> hashao
> --
> | This message was re-posted from debian-chinese-gb@lists.debian.org
> | and converted from gb2312 to big5 by an automatic gateway.
> diff -ur xcin-2.5.2.99.pre2.orig/src/xim.c xcin-2.5.2.99.pre2/src/xim.c
> --- xcin-2.5.2.99.pre2.orig/src/xim.c Tue Nov 27 23:42:03 2001
> +++ xcin-2.5.2.99.pre2/src/xim.c Sun Dec 9 19:52:09 2001
> @@ -1033,11 +1033,26 @@
> XIMEncodings encodings;
> Window mainwin;
> locale_t *locale;
> + char* imlocale;
> int i;
>
> transport_type = TRANSPORT_X;
> xccore = core;
> locale = &(xccore->xcin_rc.locale);
> +
> + {
> + char *pdot;
> + int plen;
> + int llen;
> + pdot = strchr(locale->lc_ctype, '.');
> + plen = pdot - locale->lc_ctype;
> + llen = strlen(locale->lc_ctype);
> + imlocale = (char*)xcin_malloc(sizeof(char)*(plen+llen+1), 1);
> + sprintf(imlocale, "%s,", locale->lc_ctype);
> + strncat(imlocale, locale->lc_ctype, plen);
> + }
> +
> +
> /*
> if (transport_type == TRANSPORT_LOCAL) {
> char hostname[64];
> @@ -1075,7 +1090,7 @@
> IMServerWindow, mainwin,
> IMModifiers, "Xi18n",
> IMServerName, xim_name,
> - IMLocale, locale->lc_ctype,
> + IMLocale, imlocale,
> IMServerTransport, transport,
> IMInputStyles, &(xccore->input_styles),
> IMEncodingList, &encodings,
> @@ -1083,6 +1098,7 @@
> IMFilterEventMask, KeyPressMask,
> IMOnKeysList, &on_keys,
> NULL);
> + free(imlocale);
> if (ims == 0)
> perr(XCINMSG_ERROR,
> N_("IMOpenIM() with name \"%s\" transport \"%s\" failed.\n"),
> --
> | This message was re-posted from debian-chinese-gb@lists.debian.org
> | and converted from gb2312 to big5 by an automatic gateway.
--
Edwin ERTW Lau
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