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parco

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« on: September 03, 2004, 01:13:30 pm »
Hi, I'm a newbie to both this forum and Zaurus. The worst thing, I think, is I know nothing about Linux.....!! Please forgive my silly question(s).

I'd like to flash the Sharp ROm to Cracko Rom and I want to know if Chinese can be supported in Cracko Rom? Thanks in advance!

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« Reply #1 on: September 04, 2004, 05:32:50 am »
Should do as it supports UNICODE fonts.  Although I dont know if a chinese input method will work.  I have tried to get several working on variouse Sharp 3 ROM derivatives and all dont seem to like the pinyin input method.
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« Reply #2 on: September 04, 2004, 09:57:48 am »
My unicode font come from Zbedic sourceforge http://sourceforge.net/projects/bedic
How to install:
  • Launch terminal
  • cd /home/QtPalmtop/lib/fonts
  • su (warning: you are now in root don't screw up everything )
  • mv /mnt/card/unifont_160_50_t10.qpf /.  (If your font is at SD Card root)
  • enjoy chinese in Opera !
Plus, since 2 or 3 weeks a new PinYin input software has been released: Murphy PinYin

Very good software for both simplified and traditional chinese and easy to use while typing with keyboard (except for french accents, i still have to swap between french keyboard and Murphy PinYin)

However simplified characters won't be displayed with unifont, it required efont .As I wasn't able to find efont.ipk i looked for the font names and symlink them with unifont
  • open terminal
  • cd /font directory
  • ln -s unifont[..].qpf efont* (replace the * by all efont names)
Murphy PinYin works
« Last Edit: September 04, 2004, 10:02:31 am by Sephiroth »

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« Reply #3 on: September 06, 2004, 05:17:21 am »
I use qpzidian and that displays Chinese characters fine (albeit I run it in rotated magnified mode, otherwise the fonts are too small).

See Sephiroth's post above for the unicode font to use.

Haven't had a chance to try murphypinyin, now that Sephiroth's got some hints, I should try it!
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« Reply #4 on: September 06, 2004, 01:02:35 pm »
thank to all of you guys! I'll try!