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Traditional Chinese
- From: Ulrich Ruess <utde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 09:35:34 +0000 (UTC)
- Message-id: <200309221735.47368.utde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Dear Mr. Fabian,
due to a hard disk failure I had to set up my SuSE 8.2 from scratch, and now I
feel like lost in the wilderness.
1. I set "en_US.UTF-8" in Yast2 as default and installed the Asian Fonts I
thought necessary. The result was a system that had nice Western fonts and
used a font like the one shown in your page "kinput2-canna-menu.html for
Chinese and Japanese. It showed simplified and traditional characters in the
right way, so I could read all my e-mails (kmail). Unfortunately I do not
know the name of this font. Can you tell me its name? True type fonts were
not yet installed at that time.
2. I additionally set "RC_LC_CTYPE=zh_TW.UTF-8" in /etc/sysconfig/language.
Now I had Chinese input, but all the Western fonts were switched to a nearly
unreadable courier font, which seems not even to be UTF-8. Do you know the
name of this font, I had the impression it is called "Adobe-Courier".
3. Since I do not often need Chinese input, I decided to set back
"RC_LC_CTYPE" in /etc/sysconfig/language and set up a user for Chinese input.
To do this I added "export LC_CTYPE=zh_TW.UTF-8" to .profile. No visible
reaction. Starting xcin in a terminal revealed that xcin was unhappy that
"xcinrc" only referred to Big5. I tried to change xcinrc by changing all
references to Big5 to UTF-8, but always got another error until I did no
longer know what to change. I then changed to "export LC_CTYPE=zh_TW.Big5"
and Chinese input worked. Do you have any idea why?
4. Since the "Chinese" user now had the unreadable font, I decided to install
True-type fonts. For this I opened the Control Center and set the Font
Installer to "administrator mode". Now there are only True type and Type 1
fonts usable. I could not find a way to use the others (I am using xfs). The
worst is that now the non-Chinese user has automatically replaced the
original Asian fonts in kmail with something else and the respective e-mails
are no longer readable. The font substitution in "qtconfig" does not work
properly and system update via "YOU" was not possible, since all servers I
tried said did not have the files. Hoe can I get back the original Asian
font?
5. During the system update "Acrobat Reader" was also updated. After the
update it did not start any longer. I de-installed it, re-installed it and
added LC_CTYPE=POSIX and export LC_CTYPE to the start script. After that it
worked again.
Best regards
Ulrich Ruess
due to a hard disk failure I had to set up my SuSE 8.2 from scratch, and now I
feel like lost in the wilderness.
1. I set "en_US.UTF-8" in Yast2 as default and installed the Asian Fonts I
thought necessary. The result was a system that had nice Western fonts and
used a font like the one shown in your page "kinput2-canna-menu.html for
Chinese and Japanese. It showed simplified and traditional characters in the
right way, so I could read all my e-mails (kmail). Unfortunately I do not
know the name of this font. Can you tell me its name? True type fonts were
not yet installed at that time.
2. I additionally set "RC_LC_CTYPE=zh_TW.UTF-8" in /etc/sysconfig/language.
Now I had Chinese input, but all the Western fonts were switched to a nearly
unreadable courier font, which seems not even to be UTF-8. Do you know the
name of this font, I had the impression it is called "Adobe-Courier".
3. Since I do not often need Chinese input, I decided to set back
"RC_LC_CTYPE" in /etc/sysconfig/language and set up a user for Chinese input.
To do this I added "export LC_CTYPE=zh_TW.UTF-8" to .profile. No visible
reaction. Starting xcin in a terminal revealed that xcin was unhappy that
"xcinrc" only referred to Big5. I tried to change xcinrc by changing all
references to Big5 to UTF-8, but always got another error until I did no
longer know what to change. I then changed to "export LC_CTYPE=zh_TW.Big5"
and Chinese input worked. Do you have any idea why?
4. Since the "Chinese" user now had the unreadable font, I decided to install
True-type fonts. For this I opened the Control Center and set the Font
Installer to "administrator mode". Now there are only True type and Type 1
fonts usable. I could not find a way to use the others (I am using xfs). The
worst is that now the non-Chinese user has automatically replaced the
original Asian fonts in kmail with something else and the respective e-mails
are no longer readable. The font substitution in "qtconfig" does not work
properly and system update via "YOU" was not possible, since all servers I
tried said did not have the files. Hoe can I get back the original Asian
font?
5. During the system update "Acrobat Reader" was also updated. After the
update it did not start any longer. I de-installed it, re-installed it and
added LC_CTYPE=POSIX and export LC_CTYPE to the start script. After that it
worked again.
Best regards
Ulrich Ruess
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