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Re: [Mlterm-dev-ja] =?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCJV4lSyVlJSIlazJ+RHsbKEI=?=
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From: Tomohiro K. <tk...@ri...> - 2002-01-27 09:42:11
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久保田です。 マニュアルの改訂です。 ウソ書いてないかどうか、チェックをお願いします。 --- /home/kubota/cvs/mlterm/mlterm/man/mlterm.1 Sun Jan 27 08:34:24 2002 +++ mlterm.1 Sun Jan 27 12:00:10 2002 @@ -11,19 +11,20 @@ scratch, which supports various character sets and encodings in the world and complex characters such as doublewidth for East Asian, combining for Thai, Vietnamese, and so on, and bi-direction for -Arab and Hebrew. More complex Indic scripts are not supported yet. +Arab and Hebrew. Indic scripts in ISCII encoding are experimentally +supported using libind library. It also supports various unique feature such as anti-alias using FreeType, multiple XIM, multiple windows, scrollbar API, scroll by mouse wheel, automatic selection of encoding, and so on. .PP Supported encodings are: -ISO-8859-[1-10], ISO-8859-[13-16], TCVN5712, KOI8-R, KOI8-U, VISCII, +ISO-8859-[1-11], ISO-8859-[13-16], TCVN5712, KOI8-R, KOI8-U, VISCII, EUC-JP, EUC-JISX0213, ISO-2022-JP[1-3], Shift_JIS, Shift_JISX0213, ISO-2022-KR, EUC-KR, UHC, JOHAB, GB2312 (EUC-CN), GBK, ISO-2022-CN, BIG5, -BIG5HKSCS, EUC-TW, HZ, TIS-620, UTF-8, and GB18030. +BIG5HKSCS, EUC-TW, HZ, TIS-620 (same as ISO-8859-11), UTF-8, and GB18030. If you have already set locale (for example LANG variable; -see \fBlocale\fR(7) for detail) mlterm will automatically select +see \fBlocale\fR(7) for detail) \fBmlterm\fR will automatically select proper encoding. .PP .\" ******************************************************************** @@ -49,6 +50,22 @@ \fBpriv_fg\fR and \fBpriv_bg\fR. The default is same to the color specified by \fB\-b\fR option. .TP +\fB\-C\fR, \fB\-\-iscii\fR=\fIlanguage\fR +Specify a language to be used in ISCII encoding. +Valid names of \fIlanguage\fR are +\fBAssamese\fR, +\fBBengali\fR, +\fBGujarati\fR, +\fBHindi\fR, +\fBKannada\fR, +\fBMalayalam\fR, +\fBOriya\fR, +\fBPunjabi\fR, +\fBRoman\fR, +\fBTamil\fR, and +\fBTelugu\fR. +Please read documents of libind for detail. +.TP \fB\-D\fR, \fB\-\-bi\fR(=\fIbool\fR) Use BiDi (bi-direction) rendering on UTF8 encoding to support RTL (right-to-left) languages such as @@ -120,7 +137,9 @@ The default is "\fBfalse\fR". .TP \fB\-V\fR, \fB\-\-varwidth\fR(=\fIbool\fR) -Each column width is variable. +Using variable column width. You may want to use this +option when you use proportional fonts. This option +is automatically turned on when using ISCII encoding. The default is "\fBfalse\fR". .TP \fB\-W\fR, \fB\-\-sep\fR=\fIcharacterlist\fR @@ -167,7 +186,29 @@ \fBpriv_fg\fR and \fBpriv_bg\fR. .TP \fB\-c\fR, \fB\-\-cp932\fR(=\fIbool\fR) -Use conversion table between CP932 and Unicode to show JISX0208 characters with XFT. +Use CP932 mapping table to convert from JIS X 0208 to Unicode +when displaying JIS X 0208 characters using Unicode font in +anti-alias (Xft) mode. This is useful when you use proprietary +Japanese truetype fonts which are intended to be used with Microsoft +Windows, with \fBmlterm\fR with encodings (such as EUC-JP, +Shift_JIS, ISO-2022-JP, and so on) which contain JIS X 0208 as +a coded character set. + +The reason is, such proprietary fonts may have glyphs only for +Unicode codepoints into which JIS X 0208 codepoints are converted using +CP932 mapping table. (CP932 is a name of mapping table which is +used by Microsoft to convert from Shift_JIS [plus Microsoft private +extended characters] into Unicode. In Unicode's point of view, +CP932 is a name of encoding which is similar to Shift_JIS and +is used by Japanese version of Microsoft Windows.) +If you use such fonts for +encodings such as EUC-JP and Shift_JIS with JIS0208.txt mapping +table which \fBmlterm\fR adopts as the standard, a few characters +are mapped into Unicode codepoints where the fonts don't have glyphs. + +Both of CP932.txt and JIS0208.txt mapping tables are supplied +by Unicode Consortium, though they are regarded to be obsolete. + The default is "\fBtrue\fR". .TP \fB\-d\fR, \fB\-\-display\fR=\fIstring\fR @@ -227,6 +268,7 @@ .TP \fB\-r\fR, \fB\-\-fade\fR=\fIratio\fR Specify fading ratio when window is unfocused. +\fB100\fR means no fading and \fB0\fR means darkest. The default is "\fB100\fR" .TP \fB\-s\fR, \fB\-\-sb\fR(=\fIbool\fR) @@ -264,7 +306,9 @@ can specify "\fBkterm\fR" also. .TP \fB\-z\fR, \fB\-\-largesmall\fR=\fIsize\fR -Specify changing size when font size becomes larger or smaller. +Specify the step of change of font size in pixel when you pushed +"Font size larger" or "Font size smaller" button on +GUI configurator. The default is \fB1\fR. .\" ******************************************************************** .SH GUI CONFIGURATOR @@ -702,7 +746,7 @@ Specify encoding. .\" ****************************************************** .SS Font Configuration File -The font configuration files "\fBfont\fR", "\fBvfont\fR", "\fBaafont\fR" and +The font configuration files "\fBfont\fR", "\fBvfont\fR", "\fBaafont\fR", and "\fBvaafont\fR" have the following keys. .PP .nf @@ -841,6 +885,27 @@ \fBX\fR(7). .PP \fBREADME.sb\fR for development of scrollbar library. +.PP +Mapping tables between Unicode and local character sets +(and encodings) are found at Unicode Consortium website +(http://www.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/). Note that +mapping tables for East Asian character sets and encodings +are moved to OBSOLETE/EASTASIA directory of the site +since August 2001. +.PP +For BIG5 and BIG5HKSCS encodings, mapping tables for Unicode +is taken from ftp://xcin.linux.org.tw/pub/xcin/i18n/charset/. +.PP +\fBUnicode Standard Annex (UAX) #11 East Asian Width\fR, +which explains East Asian Width properties, and +\fBEastAsianWidth.txt\fR, which defines EastAsianAmbiguous +characters in Unicode, are supplied by Unicode Consortium +(http://www.unicode.org). +.PP +See the web page of "Linux Technology Development for Indian +Languages" (http://www.cse.iitk.ac.in/~moona/isciig/) for +libind library and related needed resouces for ISCII support +by \fBmlterm\fR. .SH FILES .TP "\fImain\fR", "\fIfont\fR", "\fIvfont\fR", "\fIaafont\fR", "\fIvaafont\fR", --- 久保田智広 Tomohiro KUBOTA <ku...@de...> http://www.debian.or.jp/~kubota/ "Introduction to I18N" http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/intro-i18n/ |
