Re: My First Program

[Wu Yongwei <adah@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Elvis Presley wrote:

> I still have to read the part about fonts. Remember, I'm only 
> interested in non-X, console fonts.

Why not X? The TTY only support 512 different glyphs or so.

> How about a utf-8 text console?

It's OK. Just not enough characters could be displayed. Not for me.

> Mlterm!

Might be OK. I do not like it because it looks very ugly under my KDE 
desktop.

> "Keyboard maps are insufficient for typing CJK..."
>
> You answered another question I had. CJK input methods must be more 
> like handwriting, than typing. Do they use a stylus? Input methods
> can be graphic too, like fonts. I've never actually seen a CJK input 
> method (just curious). I guess the number of shear number of keys 
> becomes overwealming. Let me google Mike Fabian's page.

No no. I use Pinyin (拼音, meaning `SPELLING of SOUNDS'), in which I 
just type `pinyin' to input the above two characters. There are many 
characters having a same pronunciation, so a selection mechanism must be 
provided, and generally inputting words is preferred to characters 
because there are fewer duplicates.

There are other kinds of input methods, of course. E.g. they may use 
shapes. In Cangji, `o' represents the 人 shape, and `oo' represents 从. 
(You need to have a Chinese-capable font to know what I mean).

You may be interested to look at mined <URL:http://towo.net/mined/>, 
which supports inputting of many different characters, including 
Chinese, Greek, and so on. I use it only under X, because no TTY could 
display Chinese. zhcon <URL:http://zhcon.sourceforge.net/> can `draw' 
Chinese characters on frame-buffer consoles, but I have not tried it yet.

Best regards,

Yongwei



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