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
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