Re: Chinese input

[Arne Goetje <20020531antispam@gmx.net>]

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On Friday 28 February 2003 13:22, Robert Storey wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Feb 2003 21:31:24 -0800
>
> Osamu Aoki <osamu@debian.org> wrote:
> > Did you create locale from root?
> >
> >  # dpkg-reconfigure locales
>
> Thanks Osamu, that solved the locale problem. The situation is improved
> now, but I'm still not quite out of the woods yet. This is what I get:
>
>    bob@sonic:~$  xcinterm-big5
>    XCIN (Chinese XIM server) version 2.5.3-pre2.
>    (module ver: 20010918, syscin ver: 20000210).
>    (use "-h" option for help)
>
>    xcin: locale "zh_TW.Big5" encoding "big5"
>    zh_TW.Big5,zh_TW
>    xcin: XIM server "xcin" transport "X/"
>    xcin: inp_styles: Root OverTheSpot
>    /usr/bin/crxvt -fm "taipei16" -fn "-sony-*-16-*-iso8859-1" -im "xcin"
> -bg black -fg white -geometry +0+0 -T "rxvt Chinese terminal (xcin,
> zh_TW.Big5)" bob@sonic:~$ /usr/bin/xcinterm-big5: /usr/bin/crxvt: No such
> file or directory
>
> If I understand the error message correctly, there should be a file named
> /usr/bin/crxvt, but there is no such file. I can't find any package in
> the Debian package list with a name like crxvt (which I assume means
> "Chinese rxvt").
>
> Despite the error message, a box pops up on my screen with the Chinese
> characters "yinshu banxing", but I can't see any way to use it to input
> Chinese characters.
>
> I'm think I'm getting close, but hoping that somebody can supply the
> missing link.
>
> regards,
> Robert

arneg@arneg:~$ apt-cache depends xcin
xcin
  Depends: libc6
  Depends: libdb3
  Depends: libtabe2
  Depends: xlibs
  Depends: locales
  Suggests: libtabe-db
  Suggests: xfonts-base
  Suggests: xfonts-intl-chinese
  Suggests: xbase-clients
  Suggests: x-ttcidfont-conf
 |Suggests: ttf-arphic-bsmi00lp
  Suggests: ttf-arphic-bkai00mp
 |Suggests: ttf-arphic-gbsn00lp
  Suggests: ttf-arphic-gkai00mp
  Suggests: xfonts-cmex-big5p
  Recommends: rxvt-ml

install all of them if you want to have a proper working chinese system.
rxvt-ml should solve your problem.

Note for the truetype fonts: I have made two new fonts which include all of 
the mentioned ones plus additional glyphs. they are a Kaiti and a Mingti 
font based on the arphic fonts.
Currently they include the following charsets:
ISO 8859-1,2,3,4,9,14,15
BIG5
GB2312-80

I'm constantly adding more glyphs so they should be updated every weekend.
The fonts are available on 
ftp://debian.linux.org.tw/pub/3Anoppix/people/arne/
I will try to make debian packages for them today or tomorrow.

Cheers
Arne

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