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I still have to read the part about fonts. Remember, I'm only interested in non-X, console fonts.
Why not X? The TTY only support 512 different glyphs or so.
How about a utf-8 text console?
It's OK. Just not enough characters could be displayed. Not for me.
Mlterm!
Might be OK. I do not like it because it looks very ugly under my KDE desktop.
"Keyboard maps are insufficient for typing CJK..."
You answered another question I had. CJK input methods must be more like handwriting, than typing. Do they use a stylus? Input methods
can be graphic too, like fonts. I've never actually seen a CJK input method (just curious). I guess the number of shear number of keys becomes overwealming. Let me google Mike Fabian's page.
No no. I use Pinyin (æé, meaning `SPELLING of SOUNDS'), in which I just type `pinyin' to input the above two characters. There are many characters having a same pronunciation, so a selection mechanism must be provided, and generally inputting words is preferred to characters because there are fewer duplicates.
There are other kinds of input methods, of course. E.g. they may use shapes. In Cangji, `o' represents the ä shape, and `oo' represents ä. (You need to have a Chinese-capable font to know what I mean).
You may be interested to look at mined <URL:http://towo.net/mined/>, which supports inputting of many different characters, including Chinese, Greek, and so on. I use it only under X, because no TTY could display Chinese. zhcon <URL:http://zhcon.sourceforge.net/> can `draw' Chinese characters on frame-buffer consoles, but I have not tried it yet.
Best regards,
Yongwei
-- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
