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Chinese, chinese - Introduction to Chinese language support
DESCRIPTION
There are two kinds of written Chinese characters, traditional Chinese
and simplified Chinese. The former is widely used in Hong Kong (HK) and
Taiwan, while the latter is more widely used in the People's Republic
of China (PRC) and Singapore.
Codesets
There are several coded character sets (codesets) available to support
each of the two written Chinese languages. For each Chinese language,
the following list notes the supported codesets and the strings that
represent those codesets in the names of locales, converters, and other
kinds of system files: Codesets for traditional Chinese: For more
information, see dechanyu(5). For more information, see eucTW(5). For
more information, see big5(5). For more information, see sbig5(5).
The Shift Big-5 codeset is supported for codeset conversion
only; it is not used in locales nor is it used for input and
output operations. For more information, see telecode(5).
The Telecode codeset is supported for codeset conversion only;
it is not used in locales nor used for input and output opera‐
tions. The cp950 encoding format is identical to big5. For more
information, see code_page(5). For more information, see Uni‐
code(5). Codesets for simplified Chinese: For more information,
see dechanzi(5). For more information, see GB18030(5). For
more information, see GBK(5). The cp936 encoding format is
identical to dechanzi except that the code page supports addi‐
tional characters. For more information, see code_page(5). For
more information, see Unicode(5).
Locales
The following list groups supported locales according to language,
country or territory, and codeset. Each locale supports one collation
sequence, which is specified following the locale name. For tradi‐
tional Chinese, Taiwan: Collation using internal code order Collation
by radical Collation by stroke Chuyin (phonetic) collation Collation
using internal code order Collation by radical Collation by stroke
Chuyin (phonetic) collation Collation using internal code order Colla‐
tion by radical Collation by stroke Chuyin (phonetic) collation Colla‐
tion is the same as for zh_TW.dechanyu For traditional Chinese, Hong
Kong: Collation using internal code order Collation using internal code
order Collation using internal code order Collation is the same as for
zh_HK.dechanyu For simplified Chinese, Hong Kong: Collation using
internal code order For simplified Chinese, PRC: Collation using inter‐
nal code order Collation by radical Collation by stroke Pinyin (Pho‐
netic) collation Collation using internal code order (however, all
characters in the GB 2312 character set are ordered first, followed by
the characters in the GBK extension) Collation using internal code
order (collation sequence reflects the subset to superset relationship;
thus all characters in GB 2312 character set are ordered first, fol‐
lowed by the characters in GBK not already ordered, followed by the
characters in GB18030 not already ordered) Collation is the same as for
zh_CN.GB18030
The asort(1) reference page contains more information on the collation
sequences used for Asian languages.
You can use the locale command (see locale(1)) to display the names of
locales installed on your system. See i18n_intro(5) for information on
setting locale from the operating system command line.
For the Common Desktop environment (CDE), you also need to set your
session language to an appropriate value by using the Language menu,
which you access by clicking on the Options button of the Login window.
Keyboards, Input Servers, and Input Methods
You can use any standard English PC style keyboard to enter Chinese.
See the keyboard(5) reference page for information about loading key‐
board mapping tables (keymaps) for keyboards.
To support Chinese input in a Motif application environment such as
CDE, the operating system provides the following input servers: For
traditional Chinese: See dxhanyuim(1X) for more information. For sim‐
plified Chinese: See dxhanziim(1X) for more information. For both tra‐
ditional and simplified Chinese: See dxim(1X) for more information.
The dxhanziim and dxhanyuim input servers are started automatically for
a CDE session based on the locale setting chosen through the login win‐
dow. See the appropriate input server reference page for information
about starting an input server from the command line.
The operating system supports the following Chinese input methods,
listed by name under the written language with which the methods are
used. Next to the name is the function key used to switch to that input
method when the window for the input server is active. For traditional
Chinese:
(These input methods are enabled when the dxhanyuim server is
running.)
Internal code, F8
Phonetic, F10
Phrase, F9
Quick Tsang-Chi, F7
Symbol
Tsang-Chi, F6
Note that there are no locales to support the Shift Big-5 and
Telecode character sets, so these characters cannot be input
directly. For simplified Chinese:
(These input methods are enabled when the dxhanziim server is
running.)
5-Stroke, F6
5-Shape, F10
Pin-Yin, or Phonetic, F8
Qu-Wei or Row-Column in GB2312-80, F7
Telex Code, F9
Phrase Input, F5
Intelligent ABC, F4
Of these input methods, the Intelligent ABC input method is the
most recent implementation. It is also the input method used on
PCs running Microsoft Windows. For traditional and simplified
Chinese (use the function key to invoke either traditional or
simplified Chinese in combination with the function key for the
input method):
(These input methods are enabled when the dxim server is run‐
ning.)
Traditional Chinese, F2:
Internal code, F9
Phonetic, F7
Quick Tsang-Chi, F6
Symbol, F8
Tsang-Chi, F5
Simplified Chinese, F1:
5-Stroke, F6
5-Shape, F8
Qu-Wei or Row-Column in GB2312-80, F7
Telex Code, F10
Symbol Input, F9
Intelligent ABC, F5
For the following terminals or keyboard settings, you can toggle
between the English input mode and Chinese input mode by using a par‐
ticular key or key sequence: For either traditional Chinese on a
VT382-D terminal keyboard or simplified Chinese on a VT382-C terminal
keyboard, press Compose. In CDE for PC-style keyboard settings, use
Shift+Space (for Hanzi) or Alt+Space (for Hanyu) The dxim default key
sequence is Ctrl+Space
The preceding key sequences are defaults. You can override them by set‐
ting other keys to perform the same function.
Chinese Terminals
The operating system supports the VT382-D and the VT382-C terminals for
traditional Chinese and simplified Chinese, respectively.
Running X and Motif Applications
X or Motif applications require non-ASCII fonts to display Chinese
characters. Therefore, the font path must be set appropriately before
starting an application that displays Chinese characters. An applica‐
tion can find Chinese fonts for codesets other than GBK or GB18030 in
either of the following directories:
/usr/i18n/lib/X11/fonts/decwin/75dpi, for low resolution display
/usr/i18n/lib/X11/fonts/decwin/100dpi, for high resolution display
Chinese fonts for the GBK and GB18030 codesets are installed in
/usr/i18n/lib/X11/fonts/SChineseTT.
For applications running under CDE, you should not need to enter manual
commands to ensure that the appropriate fonts are found as long as
those fonts are installed on the system or available through a font
server. For other applications, you can use the following command to
check the font path: % xset q
If one of the directories in the preceding list is not in the font
path, the following example shows how to add the directory. You can
substitute 100dp for 75dpi if you want high resolution display. % xset
+fp /usr/i18n/lib/X11/decwin/75dpi/ % xset fp rehash
Printers
The operating system supports the following Chinese printers, grouped
by language. The associated print filter is noted in parentheses fol‐
lowing the printer name. For traditional Chinese: The CP382-D is a
Chinese dot matrix printer. The operating system also supports text
printers that have built-in traditional Chinese fonts and text printers
to which traditional Chinese fonts can be downloaded. For simplified
Chinese: The LA88-C is a Chinese dot matrix printer. The LA380-CB is a
Chinese graphic line printer.
In addition, the pcfof and wwpsof generic print filters are available
for use with many other printers to support Chinese printing. For more
information on setting up and configuring printers, refer to
i18n_printing(5) and lprsetup(8).
SEE ALSO
Commands: asort(1), locale(1), lp(1), lpr(1), dxhanyuim(1X),
dxhanziim(1X), dxim(1X), xset(1X), lpd(8), lprsetup(8)
Files: printcap(4)
Others: big5(5), code_page(5), dechanyu(5), dechanzi(5), eucTW(5),
GB18030(5), GBK(5), i18n_intro(5), i18n_printing(5), iconv_intro(5),
keyboard(5), l10n_intro(5), sbig5(5), telecode(5), Unicode(5)
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