[cxterm-devel] cxterm big5 fonts

[<hin...@id...>]

Dear all,

Just got round to join the mailing list...

About the big5 font issue somebody posted a couple of months ago. 
A couple of japanese fonts and gb fonts comes with Xfree86/X-contrib 
for as long as I remember so they are available on most systems 
(all Xfree86-based systems [linux,FreeBSD, Cygwin...], Solaris, 
Tru64) but big5 standardization is a relatively late thing and 
didn't get into either Xfree86 or X contrib. So big5 font 
installation is normally required on a fresh system.
(I think the poster was lucky to have used a system which 
had the fonts installed previously).

As for Redhat 6.x/7.x, some recent linux system comes with
font servers and some extra CJK truetype fonts (Xfree86 bundles 
bitmap bdf/pcf fonts, and the cxterm font install also uses
bitmap fonts). For performance reasons, cxterm probably
should use/try bitmap font first, but I guess the launch script
should try to look for those true-type fonts also... something
to add to the TODO list... 

I'll try to add a note about this into the source distribution 
when I get round to do this.

Hin-Tak