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Table of Contents


Title and Copyright Pages

About This Manual
      Audience
      Organization
      Related Documents
      Conventions

1   Character Sets
      1.1 CNS 11643
      1.2 DTSCS
      1.3 Big-5
      1.4 GB2312-80
      1.5 Extended GB
      1.6 GBK and GB18030-2000
      1.7 Unicode
      1.8 ISO/IEC 10646

2   Codesets and Codeset Conversions
      2.1 DEC Hanyu
         2.1.1 ASCII CODE
         2.1.2 CNS 11643 Code
         2.1.3 DTSCS Code
         2.1.4 User Defined Characters
      2.2 Taiwanese EUC
      2.3 Big-5
      2.4 DEC Hanzi
      2.5 GBK
      2.6 GB18030
      2.7 Shift Big-5
      2.8 Telecode
         2.8.1 Plane 1 Character Encoding
         2.8.2 Plane 2 Character Encoding
      2.9 UCS-4/UTF-16
      2.10 UTF-8
      2.11 Codeset Conversion
         2.11.1 Default Conversion String
         2.11.2 One-to-Many Conversion
         2.11.3 User Defined Character Mappings
         2.11.4 Hong Kong Supplementary Character Set
      2.12 Codeset for Peripheral Devices

3   Locales

4   Local Language Devices
      4.1 Terminals
      4.2 Printers

5   Fonts
      5.1 DECwindows Fonts
         5.1.1 XLFD Font Names
         5.1.2 Bitmap Font Samples
         5.1.3 Font Encodings
         5.1.4 Specifying Fonts in DECwindows Applications
      5.2 Outline Fonts
         5.2.1 XLFD Font Names of Chinese Outline Fonts
      5.3 TrueType Fonts

6   Keyboards

7   Input Methods
      7.1 Activating Chinese Input Methods
         7.1.1 Chinese Input Methods and Character-Cell Terminal Applications
         7.1.2 The dxhanziim and dxhanyuim Input Servers and DECwindows Motif Applications
         7.1.3 The dxhanziim and dxhanyuim Input Servers and CDE Applications
         7.1.4 Setting Default Input Method with the i18nconfig Utility
         7.1.5 DXIM Input Server
           7.1.5.1 Using DXIM to Select and Activate Input Methods
      7.2 Switching Input Method
      7.3 Motif Interface Input Method
         7.3.1 Input Areas
         7.3.2 Interaction Styles
             7.3.2.1 Root Window Interaction
             7.3.2.2 Off-the-Spot Interaction
      7.4 Operations of the Chinese Input Server
      7.5 Customizing the Chinese Input Servers
         7.5.1 Customizing the dxim Input Server
             7.5.1.1 Input Method Class and Module Customization
             7.5.1.2 Input Method Window Customization
         7.5.2 Customizing dxhanziim and dxhanyuim Input Servers
             7.5.2.1 Vertical Layout
             7.5.2.2 Horizontal Layout
             7.5.2.3 Select Phrase Input Class
             7.5.2.4 User Phrase Database
             7.5.2.5 System Phrase Database
             7.5.2.6 Current Window
             7.5.2.7 Input Method Customization
             7.5.2.8 Help
             7.5.2.9 Quit
             7.5.2.10 Saving Your New Settings
      7.6 Alphabetic Input Methods
      7.7 Tsang-Chi Input Method
         7.7.1 Tsang-Chi Root Radicals
         7.7.2 Tsang-Chi Code Generation
             7.7.2.1 General Rules
             7.7.2.2 Connected Characters
             7.7.2.3 Composite Characters
             7.7.2.4 Exceptional Characters
         7.7.3 Invoking Tsang-Chi Input Method
         7.7.4 Tsang-Chi Multiple Candidates
         7.7.5 Tsang-Chi Repeat Character Input
         7.7.6 Tsang-Chi Error Handling
      7.8 Quick Tsang-Chi Input Method
         7.8.1 Quick Tsang-Chi Code Generation
         7.8.2 Invoking Quick Tsang-Chi Input Method
         7.8.3 Entering Quick Tsang-Chi Code
         7.8.4 Quick Tsang-Chi Multiple Candidates
         7.8.5 Quick Tsang-Chi Repeat Character Input
         7.8.6 Quick Tsang-Chi Error Handling
      7.9 Phonetic Input Method
         7.9.1 Phonetic Symbol Categories
         7.9.2 Phonetic Code Generation
         7.9.3 Invoking Phonetic Input Method
         7.9.4 Entering Phonetic Code
         7.9.5 Phonetic Symbol Multiple Candidates
         7.9.6 Phonetic Symbol Repeat Character Input
         7.9.7 Phonetic Symbol Error Handling
      7.10 Internal Code Input Method
         7.10.1 Internal Code Input Procedure
         7.10.2 Internal Code Repeat Character Input
         7.10.3 Internal Code Error Handling
      7.11 Phrase Input Method
         7.11.1 dxim Phrase Input Method
         7.11.2 dxhanziim and dxhanyuim Phrase Input Method
         7.11.3 Phrase Error Handling
             7.11.3.1 Requested Phrase Does Not Exist
             7.11.3.2 Error in the Phrase Definition File
      7.12 Symbol Input in traditional Chinese
         7.12.1 Invoking Symbol Input Mode
         7.12.2 Rules of Symbol Input
         7.12.3 Entering Symbol Code
         7.12.4 Symbol Code Multiple Candidates
         7.12.5 Symbol Code Error Handling
      7.13 Input of User Defined Characters in DECwindows Motif
      7.14 5-Stroke Input Method
         7.14.1 5-Stroke Input Mechanism
             7.14.1.1 Single Character Input
             7.14.1.2 Input of Terms
         7.14.2 5-Stroke Input Procedure
         7.14.3 5-Stroke Multiple Candidates
         7.14.4 5-Stroke and the Association Mode
         7.14.5 5-Stroke Wildcard Key
      7.15 5-Shape Input Method
         7.15.1 Distribution of 5-Shape Radicals
         7.15.2 5-Shape Decomposition of Chinese Characters
         7.15.3 5-Shape Distinction Code
         7.15.4 Principles of 5-Shape Character Decomposition
         7.15.5 5-Shape Input Mechanism
             7.15.5.1 Single Character Input
             7.15.5.2 Term Input
         7.15.6 5-Shape Input Procedure
         7.15.7 5-Shape Multiple Candidates
         7.15.8 5-Shape and Association Mode
         7.15.9 5-Shape Simple Code Characters
             7.15.9.1 Frequently-Used Characters (Level 1 Simple Code)
             7.15.9.2 Level 2 Simple Code
             7.15.9.3 Level 3 Simple Code
         7.15.10 5-Shape Wildcard Key
         7.15.11 Entering 5-Shape Code Through the Numeric Keypad
      7.16 Pin-Yin Input Method
         7.16.1 Pin-Yin Input Mechanism
         7.16.2 Pin-Yin Input Procedure
         7.16.3 Pin-Yin Multiple Candidates
         7.16.4 Pin-Yin and Association Mode
         7.16.5 Pin-Yin Multiple Phonetic Representations
         7.16.6 Pin-Yin Radical Characters
      7.17 Qu-Wei Input Method
         7.17.1 DEC GB2312 Characters
         7.17.2 Extended GB Characters
         7.17.3 Entity Names and Unicode Values
      7.18 Telex Code Input Method
      7.19 Intelligent ABC Input Method
         7.19.1 Basic Input Methods
         7.19.2 Input Process
         7.19.3 Intelligent ABC Input Method Features
         7.19.4 Intelligent ABC Usage Notes
      7.20 Symbol Input in dxhanziim
      7.21 Conversion Between Input Servers and DECwindows Motif Applications

8   Chinese Printing Support
      8.1 Supported Printers
         8.1.1 Text Printers
         8.1.2 PostScript Printers
      8.2 Print File Formats
      8.3 Printing Features
         8.3.1 Font Embedding
         8.3.2 Font Faulting
         8.3.3 Software On-Demand Font Loading
         8.3.4 Codeset Conversion
         8.3.5 Outline Fonts
      8.4 Printing Commands and Daemons
         8.4.1 Country-Specific Options to the lpr Command
         8.4.2 PostScript Font Management Utility (pfsetup)
         8.4.3 Font-Faulting Daemon (ffd)
         8.4.4 PrintServer Printing Command (wwlpspr)
      8.5 Chinese Printing Setup
         8.5.1 Dot Matrix Printers
         8.5.2 DEClaser 1152
         8.5.3 DEClaser 5100
         8.5.4 PrintServer 17
         8.5.5 Generic PostScript Printers

9   Other Chinese Features
      9.1 Phrase Support in the VT382-D Terminal
         9.1.1 Creating a Phrase Definition File
         9.1.2 Syntax of Phrase Definitions
         9.1.3 Phrase Downloading
      9.2 Sorting Utility
         9.2.1 Multiple Collating Sequences
         9.2.2 Comparing Depth-First and Breadth-First Sorting
         9.2.3 User Defined Characters
      9.3 Hanyu and Hanzi DECterm
         9.3.1 Creating a Hanyu or Hanzi DECterm
         9.3.2 Customizing DECterm
         9.3.3 Font Sizes
         9.3.4 Terminal ID
         9.3.5 Interaction Style
         9.3.6 Input Server
         9.3.7 Copying Information
         9.3.8 Default Chinese Character Set
         9.3.9 Chinese Character Input and Output
         9.3.10 Reconnecting the Input Server
         9.3.11 VT382-D and VT382-C Terminal Functions
      9.4 Phrase Conversion
      9.5 Special Characters in nroff

Figures

1-1   CNS 11643 Character Planes
1-2   CNS 11643 First Character Planes
1-3   CNS 11643 Second Character Plane
1-4   EDPC Recommended Character Set
1-5   GB2312-80 Character Set
2-1   DEC Hanyu Encoding of CNS 11643 Planes
2-2   Code Space for CNS 11643 in DEC Hanyu
2-3   DEC Hanyu Encoding of DTSCS Characters
2-4   Code Space for DTSCS in DEC Hanyu
2-5   Encoding of Taiwanese EUC
2-6   Code Space for Big-5
2-7   DEC Hanzi Character Encoding
2-8   GB2312-80 and Extended GB Code Space
5-1   Sung Font Sample
5-2   Hei Font Sample
5-3   Songti Font Sample
5-4   Heiti Font Sample
5-5   Fangsongti Font Sample
5-6   Kaiti Font Sample
5-7   CNS 11643-1986 Font Encoding Scheme
5-8   DTSCS Font Encoding Scheme
5-9   GB2312-80 Font Encoding Schemes
6-1   LK201-D Keyboard Layout
6-2   LK401-D Keyboard Layout
6-3   LK201-C Keyboard Layout
6-4   LK401-C Keyboard Layout
6-5   Numeric Keypad for 5-Stroke Input Method
7-1   Chinese Root Window Interaction Style
7-2   Chinese Input Window Icon
7-3   Off-the-Spot Interaction Style
7-4   Customization of Invocation Key Sequences In dxhanyuim
7-5   Customization of Invocation Key Sequences In dxhanziim
7-6   Full Form Alphabet Input Method
7-7   Invocation of the Tsang-Chi Input Method
7-8   Entering a Tsang-Chi Radical
7-9   Multiple Candidates
7-10  The Quick Tsang-Chi Input Method
7-11  Entering a Quick Tsang-Chi Code
7-12  Entering the Phonetic Symbols for
7-13  Input of Using the Internal Code Input Method
7-14  Entering a Phrase Code
7-15  Converting a Phrase Code to a Phrase
7-16  Distribution of Radicals
7-17  5-Shape Radical Keys
7-18  Distinction Code for the 5-Shape Input method
8-1   Two-Channel Communication of the Font-Faulting Mechanism

Tables

1-1   Characters Defined in CNS 11643-1986
1-2   Characters Defined in CNS 11643-1992
1-3   Mapping of EDPC Recommended Character Set to CNS 11643-1992
2-1   CNS 11643 Code Range in DEC Hanyu
2-2   UDC Code Range in DEC Hanyu
2-3   Big-5 Code Range
2-4   Big-5 User Defined Spaces
2-5   Big-5 to Shift Big-5 Character Mappings
2-6   Chinese Codeset Conversion
2-7   Codeset Names and Associated Strings
2-8   Mapping Between Big-5 and DEC Hanyu User Defined Characters
2-9   Feasible Chinese Codesets for Applications, Terminals, and Printers
3-1   Chinese Locales
3-2   Chinese Language Names
4-1   Chinese Print Filters
5-1   Traditional Chinese Screen Fonts
5-2   Simplified Chinese Screen Fonts
5-3   XLFD of Miscellaneous Chinese Screen Fonts
5-4   Chinese DECwindows Font Encodings
5-5   Font Encoding Conversion
5-6   Chinese DECwindows Font Encodings
5-7   GR to GL Font Encoding Conversion
5-8   Traditional Chinese Default Fonts
5-9   Simplified Chinese Default Fonts
7-1   Key Sequences that Invoke Chinese Input Method
7-2   Key Sequences Used to select Traditional Chinese Input Method
7-3   Key Sequences Used to Select Simplified Chinese Input Method
7-4   Key Sequences Used to Select dxim Input Methods
7-5   Window Input Areas
7-6   Modifier State Customization
7-7   Tsang-Chi Root Radicals Classification
7-8   Quick Reference Table of the Tsang-Chi Root Radicals
7-9   Composition Form Characters
7-10   Connected Form Characters
7-11  Examples of Connected Character decomposition
7-12  Composite Character Decomposition
7-13  Compound Characters
7-14  Difficult Characters
7-15  Special Characters
7-16  Meaning of Arrow Characters
7-17  Phonetic Symbols
7-18  Examples of Phonetic Input
7-19  Phonetic Symbols with Different Termination Keys
7-20  Stroke Categories
7-21  5-Stroke Code
7-22  Input of Single Characters with the 5-Stroke Input Method
7-23  Input Terms with the 5-Stroke Input Method
7-24  Shape Code
7-25  Entering Basic Strokes
7-26  Input of Terms with the 5-Shape Input Method
7-27  Pin-Yin Tone Marks
9-1   Phrase Definitions
9-2   Traditional Chinese Sorting Methods
9-3   Simplified Chinese Sorting Methods