Chinese charecters.

whitefox · 05-29-2003, 11:37 AM

i am using slackware 9.0,

somehow Chinese characters are not displayed correctly,
and i don't know how to type Chinese.

Could anyone help?

Thanks.

Rodrin · 05-29-2003, 12:09 PM

I posted some information about this in the thread "Can't display Chinese in Slackware 9.0." I'll repost my reply there.

Quote:

The original problem in this thread existed because the programs that would not display Chinese correctly were set to use True Type fonts, and no Chinese True Type fonts come with Slackware 9.0. The programs that would display Chinese correctly were probably using Type 1 Chinese fonts (although I haven't checked into this). A good way to solve this problem would be to install some Chinese True Type fonts on your system. There are a few available for free at the GNU ftp site. To install these fonts on your system just unzip them and copy them to a subdirectory under /usr/share/fonts. It doesn't matter what you name it, but something like truetype or TTF would make sense. Also remember to make the fonts world readable (chmod +r *.ttf). Then reboot your system (or run fc-cache on the directory you made and restart X and/or the program you wish to use the fonts with). The same goes for any new True Type fonts that you wish to add to your system.

terminator · 05-29-2003, 04:45 PM

I've written a mini-Howto on how to input Chinese in Slack, you can check it out here:
http://www.mtc.dhs.org/linux/mylinux/chnslack.html