CJK Support on CSAIL Debian
This page documents support for the viewing and input of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean (CJK)
language in CSAIL Debian. If you just want to view CJK on the web, install the
following packages:
ttf-arphic* (Chinese)
ttf-unfonts (Korean)
ttf-alee (Korean)
ttf-baekmuk (Korean)
ttf-sazanami* (Japanese)
ttf-kochi* (Japanese)
Not all of those fonts are necessary, but they should give you a decent selection. Then add the
following line to /etc/X11/XF86Config-4:
FontPath "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType"
Now restart X and you should be able to view most Chinese, Japanese, or Korean webpages.
To change fonts for those languages, go to
Edit->Preferences->Fonts and Colors in Mozilla
and you should see the fonts you just added. If you also want to input text, please
follow the instructions below.
Installing/Configuring Locales
First, install the locales package (newer installations should have this. If the output of
`dpkg -l locales` contains something like "=ii locales ...=" then it is installed, in which
case run
sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales to reconfigure it and follow the instructions below.)
You will be prompted to choose which locales to generate. You'll probably want at least the following:
en_US.iso8859-1
en_US.utf8
ja*
ko*
zh_CN.gb2312
zh_CN.utf8
zh_TW.big5
zh_TW.utf8
You will then be asked which locale will be used as a default (probably en_US). After this, you
should see output showing the various locales you selected being generated.
Installing Fonts and Input Server
Next, install the following packages:
scim
scim-chinese
ttf-arphic-bsmi00lp -- big5
ttf-arphic-gbsn00lp -- gb2312
ttf-arphic-bkai00mp
ttf-arphic-gkai00mp
scim-hangul
ttf-unfonts
ttf-kochi-gothic
ttf-kochi-mincho
rxvt-ml
You will also want to add the following line to /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 and then restart X.
FontPath "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType"
This will allow various X utilities to use the new fonts you've installed.
At this point, you should be able to view Chinese, Japanese, or Korean text on most
webpages.
Entering Text
To input text, scim will need to be running. Start scim in daemon mode with
$ scim -d
Now set the following environment variables (case is important here):
$ export LC_CTYPE=zh_CN
$ export XMODIFIERS=@im=SCIM
and for csh variants:
> setenv LC_CTYPE zh_CN
> setenv XMODIFIERS @im=SCIM
For Korean and Japanese use ko_KR, and ja_JP for LC_CTYPE. If you use more
than one language, you can either use separate terminals with different environment
variables, or just set LC_CTYPE to en_US.UTF-8 and in the scim control panel choose
which input method to use.
Now start your app. For text editors, konsole seems to work well for all
languages. You can also try crxvt-big for Traditional Chinese, crxvt-gb for Simplified
Chinese and krxvt for Japanese.
To start entering text in your chosen language, type 'Ctrl-Space'. You should
see a control panel for scim pop up. You can select your input method by clicking
on the panel. You can have different windows using different languages and input
methods. SCIM selects which method to present to you by checking the environment
variable $LC_CTYPE (or $LC_ALL or $LANG if you want). For more information on using
scim, check out:
www.scim-im.org and
www.freedesktop.org/Software/scim
Emacs
With emacs, goto
Options->Mule->Set Language Environment and choose your language.
Ctrl-'\' will toggle input modes between your default language and your selected one.
WWW-Browser
With Netscape/Mozilla: for some reason, they don't like the en_US.UTF-8 locale, so
you'll need to set LC_CTYPE to something else (zh_CN.UTF-8, ko_KR.UTF-8, or ja_JP.UTF-8).
--
BrianJones - 01 Jun 2005
