HI Juliusz,
Thank you so much for your help, I have made some progress today. With the
attached zh_CN.gb18030/XLC_LOCALE and GB18030-0.enc files. I can see all the the
characters except those from the four-byte part. I guess, maybe still something
wrong with locale definition?
Here are some mapping entries:
...
0xFEFC 0xE4C3
0xFEFD 0xE4C4
0xFEFE 0xE4C5
0x81308130 0x0080
0x81308131 0x0081
0x81308132 0x0082
0x81308133 0x0083
0x81308134 0x0084
0x81308135 0x0085
0x81308136 0x0086
0x81308137 0x0087
0x81308138 0x0088
0x81308139 0x0089
0x81308230 0x008A
...
Regards,
Yu Shao
Juliusz Chroboczek wrote:
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>
> YS> This is Yu Shao, from Red Hat Asia-Pacific,
>
> Pleased to meet you. (Shakes hands.)
>
> YS> at the moment, we are developing the Simplified Chinese version of
> YS> Red Hat Linux, and we are having some problems with the Chinese
> YS> new locale gb18030 support.
>
> Currently, we at XFree86 have not decided whether to include native
> support for GB 18030 or to promote Unicode-based locales instead and
> rely on iconv and other code conversion tools to convert GB 18030
> texts into UTF-8. My personal opinion is that the latter approach is
> preferable.
>
> YS> I defined the zh_CN.gb18030 in the locale database, and also put
> YS> encoding file gb18030-0.enc in, and I use FreeType module to
> YS> render the chinese True Type fonts, but still no good luck. I am
> YS> wondering if the encoding file gb18030-0.enc is enough for
> YS> FreeType module to support this new locale, do i need to do
> YS> something else?
>
> It should be enough, as long as you include the right entries in your
> fonts.scale files before generating the fonts.dir. In released
> versions of XFree86, you will also need to make sure that mkfontdir
> generates an entry for your encoding in encodings.dir (this will no
> longer be necessary in 4.2.0).
>
> Please check whether xfd allows you to see the GB 18030-encoded fonts.
>
> YS> and do I need to add coversion modules into /xc/lib/X11/lcUniConv?
>
> These are only needed if you want UTF8_STRING to work properly in GB
> 18030 locales. I wouldn't worry about it for now.
>
> YS> I attached the patch file which is what I have done so far, can
> YS> you help me to have a look?
>
> First of all, you need a SIZE declaration in your encoding file, and
> optionally a FIRSTINDEX entry.
>
> There's probably also something missing in your XLC_LOCALE file;
> unfortunately, I don't have time to work it out right now, so I'll
> append it to this message and let the list work it out.
>
> Regards,
>
> Juliusz
> diff -uNr xc.orig/nls/XLC_LOCALE/zh_CN.gb18030 xc/nls/XLC_LOCALE/zh_CN.gb18030
> --- xc.orig/nls/XLC_LOCALE/zh_CN.gb18030 Thu Jan 1 10:00:00 1970
> +++ xc/nls/XLC_LOCALE/zh_CN.gb18030 Fri Oct 12 12:08:42 2001
> @@ -0,0 +1,74 @@
> +#
> +# XLC_FONTSET category
> +#
> +XLC_FONTSET
> +
> +on_demand_loading True
> +
> +object_name generic
> +
> +# We leave the legacy encodings in for the moment, because we don't
> +# have that many ISO10646 fonts yet.
> +# fs0 class (7 bit ASCII)
> +fs0 {
> + charset {
> + name ISO8859-1:GL
> + }
> + font {
> + primary ISO8859-1:GL
> + vertical_rotate all
> + }
> +}
> +
> +# fs1 class (Chinese Han Character)
> +fs1 {
> + charset {
> + name GB2312.1980-0:GL
> + }
> + font {
> + primary GB2312.1980-0:GL
> + }
> +}
> +
> +# fs2 class
> +fs2 {
> + charset {
> + name ISO10646-1
> + }
> + font {
> + primary GB18030-0
> + substitute GBK2K-0
> + }
> +}
> +END XLC_FONTSET
> +
> +#
> +# XLC_XLOCALE category
> +#
> +XLC_XLOCALE
> +
> +encoding_name GB18030
> +mb_cur_max 4
> +state_depend_encoding False
> +
> +# cs0 class
> +cs0 {
> + side GL:Default
> + length 1
> + ct_encoding ISO8859-1:GL
> +}
> +
> +# cs1 class
> +cs1 {
> + side GR
> + length 2
> + ct_encoding GB2312.1980-0:GL; GB2312.1980-0:GR
> +}
> +
> +# cs2 class
> +cs2 {
> + side none
> + ct_encoding ISO10646-1
> +}
> +
> +END XLC_XLOCALE
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#
# XLC_FONTSET category
#
XLC_FONTSET
on_demand_loading True
object_name generic
# We leave the legacy encodings in for the moment, because we don't
# have that many ISO10646 fonts yet.
# fs0 class (7 bit ASCII)
fs0 {
charset {
name ISO8859-1:GL
}
font {
primary ISO8859-1:GL
vertical_rotate all
}
}
# fs1 class (Chinese Han Character)
fs1 {
charset {
name GB2312.1980-0:GL
}
font {
primary GB2312.1980-0:GL
}
}
# fs2 class
fs2 {
charset {
name GB18030-0
}
font {
primary GB18030-0
}
}
END XLC_FONTSET
#
# XLC_XLOCALE category
#
XLC_XLOCALE
encoding_name GB18030
mb_cur_max 4
state_depend_encoding False
# cs0 class
cs0 {
side GL:Default
length 1
ct_encoding ISO8859-1:GL
}
# cs1 class
cs1 {
side GR
length 2
ct_encoding GB2312.1980-0:GL; GB2312.1980-0:GR
}
# cs2 class
cs2 {
side none
ct_encoding GB18030-0
}
END XLC_XLOCALE
