Chinese, chinese - Introduction to Chinese language support
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 [Toc] [Back]
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 operations. The cp950 encoding
format is identical to big5. For more information,
see code_page(5). For more information, see
Unicode(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 additional
characters. For more information, see
code_page(5). For more information, see Unicode(5).
Locales [Toc] [Back]
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 traditional 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 Collation by radical Collation by
stroke Chuyin (phonetic) collation Collation 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 internal code
order Collation by radical Collation by stroke Pinyin
(Phonetic) 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, followed 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 keyboard 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 simplified Chinese:
See dxhanziim(1X) for more information. For both
traditional 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 window. 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 running.)
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 particular 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 setting other keys to perform the same function.
Chinese Terminals [Toc] [Back]
The operating system supports the VT382-D and the VT382-C
terminals for traditional Chinese and simplified Chinese,
respectively.
Running X and Motif Applications [Toc] [Back]
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 application 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 [Toc] [Back]
The operating system supports the following Chinese printers,
grouped by language. The associated print filter is
noted in parentheses following 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).
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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