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ShiroiKuma

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« on: November 21, 2005, 09:37:24 am »
Hi:

Has anyone been successful in displaying any unicode text in the terminal, i.e. rxvt or so?

I've fiddled with it for the past couple of days, can't do it somehow.

I can change the font that rxvt uses to display stuff by for instance:
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rxvt -fn "xft:Sazanami Gothic-16"and rxvt comes up using this font, but then when doing cat on a UTF-8 file it displays garbage.

Can anyone do it, not necessarily Japanese, any unicode characters will do, because the process is the same.

How can I do this?
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« Reply #1 on: November 21, 2005, 08:10:48 pm »
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Has anyone been successful in displaying any unicode text in the terminal, i.e. rxvt or so?
You might try using rxvt-unicode (a.k.a. urxvt); I've recently started using it on my notebook. One of it's key points (besides supporting unicode) is that it is very flexible with fonts - it even allows simultaneous usage of true/freetype fonts with X11 fonts.

I haven't tried it on the zaurus, as I don't use pdaXrom, but I saw a report from someone stating that it worked with OZ, so it shouldn't be difficult to build.

The source is available at: http://software.schmorp.de/#rxvt-unicode

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« Reply #2 on: November 22, 2005, 02:50:19 am »
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Has anyone been successful in displaying any unicode text in the terminal, i.e. rxvt or so?
You might try using rxvt-unicode (a.k.a. urxvt); I've recently started using it on my notebook. One of it's key points (besides supporting unicode) is that it is very flexible with fonts - it even allows simultaneous usage of true/freetype fonts with X11 fonts.

I haven't tried it on the zaurus, as I don't use pdaXrom, but I saw a report from someone stating that it worked with OZ, so it shouldn't be difficult to build.

The source is available at: http://software.schmorp.de/#rxvt-unicode

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I am using rxvt-unicode. And I can change the font the console uses for display to a UTF-8 font. But then it still displays garbage...

It might be something to do with locales, I installed the UTF-8 locale originally for XQt from [a href=\"http://xqt.sourceforge.jp/feed-testing/]http://xqt.sourceforge.jp/feed-testing/[/url] and all other programs work in Japanese, so I'm assuming it works.

But maybe there is some tweaking for the rxvt to be done. But can't get it to work...
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« Reply #3 on: November 25, 2005, 09:23:04 am »
I found a solution for this issue, so if anyone is interested:

1. Install vte_0.11.10_armv5tel.ipk.
2. Install gtkterm2_0.2.3_armv5tel.ipk

Then if you have Japanese locale installed and configured you'll see text in Japanese in gtkterm2 no problem.
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« Reply #4 on: November 26, 2005, 05:08:29 am »
Hi, can you input CJK? I got "Error (Invalid or incomplete multibyte or wide character) converting data for child, dropping" when I input Chinese character. How can you set the font of gtkterm2? It is too small for me.

Moreover, do you know how to get the Chinese locale? I see Chinese filenames as "boxes".  Thanks.

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I found a solution for this issue, so if anyone is interested:

1. Install vte_0.11.10_armv5tel.ipk.
2. Install gtkterm2_0.2.3_armv5tel.ipk

Then if you have Japanese locale installed and configured you'll see text in Japanese in gtkterm2 no problem.
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« Reply #5 on: November 26, 2005, 06:07:47 am »
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Hi, can you input CJK? I got "Error (Invalid or incomplete multibyte or wide character) converting data for child, dropping" when I input Chinese character. How can you set the font of gtkterm2? It is too small for me.
Edit ~/gtkterm2rc.
Change the line starting with terminalFont to
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terminalFont=Terminal 16
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Moreover, do you know how to get the Chinese locale? I see Chinese filenames as "boxes".  Thanks.
Don't know about Chinese locale. You can install Japanese locale from the xqt.sourceforge.jp/feed-testing/

It works for pdaXrom, but for Chinese don't know.
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« Reply #6 on: November 26, 2005, 08:21:54 am »
Thanks for the tips and packages!!
Actually I've also been looking for the Chinese solution for quite a long time.  It will surely be a big news for the Chinese language users.  
... Just so eager to use the console for most of the actions, commands, notepad, outliner, web browser, ebook reader, etc)  
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« Reply #7 on: November 26, 2005, 05:15:36 pm »
Thanks ShiroiKuma! The font size works for me.

I found that we need to install any UTF-8 locale and set the LANG environment variable to that to ready CJK filenames. For example, if you installed locale zh_TW.utf8, you need to set LANG to zh_TW.UTF-8. The side effect is all applications to display Chinese menu, etc.

If you want to be able to read CJK only and leaving all other things English. Try en_US.utf8 locale and LANG=en_US.UTF-8.

I attached the locale data ipks for you.

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« Reply #8 on: November 26, 2005, 05:26:11 pm »
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If you want to be able to read CJK only and leaving all other things English. Try en_US.utf8 locale and LANG=en_US.UTF-8.

I attached the locale data ipks for you.

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« Reply #9 on: November 26, 2005, 06:27:28 pm »
My heartfelt thanks for your packages, cs_jacky!  Have been waiting for this for ages.  
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« Reply #10 on: November 27, 2005, 01:14:21 am »
I compiled gnome-terminal. The gnome-terminal is more user friendly and more option (such as backgrounds). However, it requires more libraries and slower (compare with gtkterm2).

EDIT: ipk updated. Please download it from later post.
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« Reply #11 on: November 27, 2005, 06:35:46 am »
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I compiled gnome-terminal. The gnome-terminal is more user friendly and more option (such as backgrounds). However, it requires more libraries and slower (compare with gtkterm2).

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Can you open more than one session in gnome-terminal? How do you specify which font it uses for display?
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« Reply #12 on: November 27, 2005, 07:33:48 am »
Thanks again, cs_jacky.  I wonder if it's also possible to use big5 locale as well?  
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« Reply #13 on: November 27, 2005, 04:16:44 pm »
Yes, you can open new windows or new tabs. You can specify font by edit current profile.

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I compiled gnome-terminal. The gnome-terminal is more user friendly and more option (such as backgrounds). However, it requires more libraries and slower (compare with gtkterm2).

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Can you open more than one session in gnome-terminal? How do you specify which font it uses for display?
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« Reply #14 on: November 27, 2005, 05:35:18 pm »
I updated gnome-terminal ipk. The changes are as follows:

1. schema are installed. You have Default profile and shortcut key.
2. schema files are installed to /etc/...

If you have changed gnome-terminal profile, you need to delete gnome-terminal directories (there are 2) under ~/.gconf.

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P.S. You need to install vte as well.
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