(1) Downloaded the mlterm source tarball, and compiled
the package successfully,
tar zxvf mlterm-2.6.2.tar.gz
cd mlterm mlterm-2.6.2
./configure --prefix /usr/local --enable-anti-alias
make
make install
(2) Then launch mlterm,
mlterm
(3) In the mlterm window,
press C-M3 (Control-Right Mouse Key) to have mlterm
setup GUI
In the GUI window, I have
Encoding -- GB18030
X Input Method -- Chinput
XIM Local -- zh_CN.GB18030
However, mlterm still fails in displaying Chinese characters.
On my Red Hat 7.3 system, the locale zh_CN.GB18030 does
exist under /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale (lower case 'gb' but I've
tried to change 'GB' to 'gb' in the GUI window, and got the same
results). And my LANG env var is set to be zh_CN.GB19030
It seems mlterm more popular on Debian. What should I do
additional work for it on Red Hat?
Belive it's something to do with fonts files under mlterm-2.6.2/etc
aafont taafont tfont vfont font
Found no info on what they are and how to set them.
Appreciate if you can investigate this matter a little further,
which, I believe, would benefit many of us.
If you would like to refer to this comment somewhere else in this project, copy and paste the following link:
Yes, indeed. I didn't go further than option section as the first
failed option -A discouraged me to go on.
The installation, however, doesn't set them for Chinese.
The format for font names seems special to mlterm. I just
stopped there as I believe it would take much time to get
it work.
For example, I uncommented this line
#ISO8859_1 = -kochi-mincho-medium-*--%d-*-iso8859-1;10,a10;12,6x12;
invoke mlterm reports error:
font -kochi-mincho-medium-*--16-*-iso8859-1 couln't be loaded.
This might be due to absense of this font, but on the other
hand, I do not quite understand how to make my Simsun
font correctly specified in these font config files.
Some sample files are highly appreciated; otherwise, I'll
have to give up here.
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Sorry, I don't have a Simsun font and cannot give an example.
The font name should be choosed from a list created by "xlsfonts".
Because mlterm is now using a GBK font for 2byte chars of GB18030, you may have to specify the font name that ends by "-gbk-0" for GBK in your mlterm/font.
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> mlterm is now using a GBK font for 2byte chars of GB18030,
It's real hard to have font works. Given this ristriction,
I have only one choice : zysong18030. When I specified it
in font file, mlterm doesn't complain but nothing displayed.
Using something else, mlterm reports font is not loaded.
Well, maybe I should to give up.
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> If you have a unicode font which covers the glyphs you want to see, mlterm can use it insted of gbk font
With -u option I got limited progress, but the display doesn't look
good. (1) too much space between chars (2) The chinese font
database is of poor quality. Note that only font that works for me
is Simsun. If mlterm doesn't support Simsun, maybe I shouldn't
use mlterm.
If you would like to refer to this comment somewhere else in this project, copy and paste the following link:
Here is what I've done so far:
(1) Downloaded the mlterm source tarball, and compiled
the package successfully,
tar zxvf mlterm-2.6.2.tar.gz
cd mlterm mlterm-2.6.2
./configure --prefix /usr/local --enable-anti-alias
make
make install
(2) Then launch mlterm,
mlterm
(3) In the mlterm window,
press C-M3 (Control-Right Mouse Key) to have mlterm
setup GUI
In the GUI window, I have
Encoding -- GB18030
X Input Method -- Chinput
XIM Local -- zh_CN.GB18030
However, mlterm still fails in displaying Chinese characters.
On my Red Hat 7.3 system, the locale zh_CN.GB18030 does
exist under /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale (lower case 'gb' but I've
tried to change 'GB' to 'gb' in the GUI window, and got the same
results). And my LANG env var is set to be zh_CN.GB19030
It seems mlterm more popular on Debian. What should I do
additional work for it on Red Hat?
Belive it's something to do with fonts files under mlterm-2.6.2/etc
aafont taafont tfont vfont font
Found no info on what they are and how to set them.
Appreciate if you can investigate this matter a little further,
which, I believe, would benefit many of us.
How to set up etc/*font is described in the "Font Configuration File" section of mlterm's man page.
Yes, indeed. I didn't go further than option section as the first
failed option -A discouraged me to go on.
The installation, however, doesn't set them for Chinese.
The format for font names seems special to mlterm. I just
stopped there as I believe it would take much time to get
it work.
For example, I uncommented this line
#ISO8859_1 = -kochi-mincho-medium-*--%d-*-iso8859-1;10,a10;12,6x12;
invoke mlterm reports error:
font -kochi-mincho-medium-*--16-*-iso8859-1 couln't be loaded.
This might be due to absense of this font, but on the other
hand, I do not quite understand how to make my Simsun
font correctly specified in these font config files.
Some sample files are highly appreciated; otherwise, I'll
have to give up here.
Sorry, I don't have a Simsun font and cannot give an example.
The font name should be choosed from a list created by "xlsfonts".
Because mlterm is now using a GBK font for 2byte chars of GB18030, you may have to specify the font name that ends by "-gbk-0" for GBK in your mlterm/font.
> mlterm is now using a GBK font for 2byte chars of GB18030,
It's real hard to have font works. Given this ristriction,
I have only one choice : zysong18030. When I specified it
in font file, mlterm doesn't complain but nothing displayed.
Using something else, mlterm reports font is not loaded.
Well, maybe I should to give up.
If you have a unicode font which covers the glyphs you want to see, mlterm can use it insted of gbk font. See "-u" option.
> If you have a unicode font which covers the glyphs you want to see, mlterm can use it insted of gbk font
With -u option I got limited progress, but the display doesn't look
good. (1) too much space between chars (2) The chinese font
database is of poor quality. Note that only font that works for me
is Simsun. If mlterm doesn't support Simsun, maybe I shouldn't
use mlterm.
Sorry, I don't understand.
What's the chinese font database?