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Title: How about start a \'beijing\' ZUG
Post by: zhanght on June 20, 2004, 07:14:21 am
AFAIK, Zaurus series like sl5500/5600 already very popular in beijing.
and a lot of people own even C7XX, even a lot of ipaq user refalash their ipaq 36/3800 to run \'familia\'.
Anyway, porting simplicity chinese inputmethod and convert \'simsun\' font will unite a lot of people join \'beijing\' ZUG.
Title: How about start a \'beijing\' ZUG
Post by: zhanght on June 20, 2004, 07:56:23 am
BTW: There is a \'fantastic\' Chinese Zaurus Fourm in taiwan for a long time.
http://zaurus.cis92.net/plps (http://zaurus.cis92.net/plps)
Admin of that fourm, named \'monoldo\' (nick:Captain of Traffic),
he lead a group of hacker there, they already done a lot of contribute
like \'traditional chinese inputmethod\' and Big5 support for most of QT applications.
They even maintained a Traditional Chinese ROM with a kernelpatched \'preemtion feature\'  for sl5500.
Title: How about start a \'beijing\' ZUG
Post by: zhanght on June 20, 2004, 08:23:23 am
To my own point of view:
Zaurus is a Personal Mobile Tool, Not a traditional PDA only used for PIM.
It\'s also a good device to help youngman or students in college to learn linux!
but as we know CEC sell both sl5600c and sl7500c in such a high price with out any reason!
eg. You can buy a sl7500c from \'CEC\' but use the same money you can get a brand-new C860 with a CF Wifi card together!
AFAIK, except chinese localizaiton/handwriting input method and CF GPRS driver, CEC almost do Nothing!
So... a lot of protential zaurus users will lost the chance to get in touch with it and lost chance to learn qt/java/kernel/embedded development on Zaurus.
My last words :  beijing ZUG will help most of people in China who get Zaurus not from \'CEC\' do simplicity chinese localization work. and supply optimized kernel.
Title: How about start a \'beijing\' ZUG
Post by: craigtyson on June 22, 2004, 08:04:57 pm
ts not only people in Beijing who need a CN localised Zaurus.  I live in the UK but use my Z as a quick lookup from Chinese to English and back using Pinyin and simplified characters.  Its been a big frustration to me that the only Chinese input methods I can find for pinyin all are based on the traditional character set.  A Beijing ZUG might just be the thing to get some proper CN localisation going and also bring the Z to a larger audience
Title: How about start a \'beijing\' ZUG
Post by: chyang on June 23, 2004, 12:53:49 am
nice to meet guys also in beijing here.
I prefer the ZUG of China.
 
Title: How about start a \'beijing\' ZUG
Post by: chyang on June 23, 2004, 12:57:35 am
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ts not only people in Beijing who need a CN localised Zaurus.  I live in the UK but use my Z as a quick lookup from Chinese to English and back using Pinyin and simplified characters.  Its been a big frustration to me that the only Chinese input methods I can find for pinyin all are based on the traditional character set.  A Beijing ZUG might just be the thing to get some proper CN localisation going and also bring the Z to a larger audience
http://sourceforge.net/projects/qpe-zh-tools/ (http://sourceforge.net/projects/qpe-zh-tools/)
try here, there is a pinyin input method available in simplified Pinyin.
I think that Zhanght must have some better input method. Perhaps we can share with him.  If it is not compiled for SL-5600C's pxa250/pxa255 specifically, I can use it on my StrongARM 1110 based sl-5500.
Zhanght, How about it?
Title: How about start a \'beijing\' ZUG
Post by: murphytalk on July 20, 2004, 10:16:06 am
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ts not only people in Beijing who need a CN localised Zaurus.  I live in the UK but use my Z as a quick lookup from Chinese to English and back using Pinyin and simplified characters.  Its been a big frustration to me that the only Chinese input methods I can find for pinyin all are based on the traditional character set.  A Beijing ZUG might just be the thing to get some proper CN localisation going and also bring the Z to a larger audience
I just released a pinyin inputmethod under GPL, have a try  
murphytalk pinyin inputmethod (http://www.hi-pda.com/forum/viewthread.php?tid=191027&fpage=1)

but it is a version dedicated to C7xx/C8xx.