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The August 1991 issue of Sun Observer (a magazine for users of Sun
Microsystems workstations) had two articles that I'd like
to share.  Does anybody here on CCNET know anything about Sun
Microsystems or Unix System V Releae 4 Chinese environments?  What
about scalable outline fonts for Chinese?


UI DOCUMENT DEFINES JAPANESE ENVIRONMENT

TOKYO -- A draft document that specifies standards for the base
operating system, windows system and GUI for Japanese language support
of Open Look and the Unix System V Release 4 operating system has been
released by Unix International (UI).

The "Unix System V Common Japanese Language Environment" document
covers 3 sets of specifications, Level 1 which are mandatory for
product implementation, Level 2 which are desirable, and Level 3 which
are guidelines for ISVs and users.

...

[ The article doesn't give any details, such as whether the
specifications support Unicode, etc. ]


TYPE VENDOR, SUN TO ADAPT JAPANESE OUTLINE FONTS

TOKYO -- Morisawa & Co. Ltd, a type vendor in Osaka, Japan, in
conjunction with Sun Microsystems and Sun's Japanes subsidiary, nihon
Sun, will work to enable scalable japanese outline fonts to be bundled
on a Unix system.

Under the technology licensing agreement, Morisawa will use Sun's
TypeMaker software tools to produce versions of several Morisawa fonts
in the scalable outline F3 format.  Sun plans to include two of the
popular Morisawa japanese fonts in F3 format with all Sun
Sparcstations, Sparcservers and printing products sold in Japan,
according to Leiann Lee, a Sun representative.  In addition, Morisawa
will offer other Japanese fonts in F3 to software developers and end
users.

The huge Japanese character set -- nearly 7000 characters -- has made
development of fonts for computers expensive and time consuming,
resulting in limited selection for software developers as well as end
users.

...

Sun's F3 fonts are scalable, which means that a single outline can be
turned into a bitmap in any point size.  In addition, these fonts are
hinted so that their quality and appearance are maintained even at
smaller point sizes and low resolutions.

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In response to Stephen Simpson's inquiry about Sun Microsystems equipment and
Japanese:  I was very interested to see your references to the two articles
mentioned in your message, and I'll look into them as soon as I can.  CCNET
readers may remember my posting of a couple of weeks ago about network
connections between Sun SPARCstations and Macs and PCs -- Sun has donated
SPARC equipment and Japanese Language Environment software to Cornell and two
other universities, and we are forming an informal development consortium to
come up with (all public domain!) solutions to some of the problems we are all
talking about.  (Problems and solutions about which many of you are much better
informed than I!)

Even though the above statement may be vague and incomplete in many ways,
please be patient:  When I figure out what we're REALLY doing (as opposed to
what we think we'd like to begin to try to do), I'll let everyone know.
Meanwhile, I'd be happy to hear more about CJK languages on Sun, if others out
there have more to share.


John R. McRae, Asst. Professor
Department of Asian Studies
388 Rockefeller Hall
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY  14853-2502
(607) 255-1328; fax:  255-1686 or -1388

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Another interesting article I read refers to a Sun Microsystems
publication: "Chinese language environment product description," Rev.
A, 1990.  I got this reference from an article in Sun World magazine,
July 1991, p. 65, about Oriental language support.  The authors of the
article are three Sun employees, Thomas Yap, Norman Koo, and D.
Hoffman.  I tried to get a copy of the publication but Sun gave me the
runaround, they wouldn't even put me in touch with the authors, even
though I am a Sparcstation owner.  Have you or anyone else seen this
elusive document?

Stephen G. Simpson               simpson@math.psu.edu
Department of Mathematics        +1 814 863-0775
Pennsylvania State University    home: +1 814 238-2274
University Park, PA 16802

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[Post without permission]

Terence Kwan

-=-

SunSoft shipping Asian Solaris 1.0

TOKYO--(BUSINESS  WIRE)--In a move to expand its position in
the  fast-growing Asian market, SunSoft Tuesday announced it
has   begun  volume  shipments  of  the  Asian  Solaris  1.0
distributed  computing  solution  for  the Japanese, Korean,
Taiwanese and Chinese markets.

The  product  gives  users  the power of 32-bit UNIX with an
intuitive   easy-to-use   desktop   environment   in   local
languages.   The announcement was made at a press conference
held in Tokyo Tuesday.

Several leading SPARC computer manufacturers announced plans
to  offer  Asian  Solaris  1.0  on  their systems, including
Toshiba  and  Matsushita  in  Japan;  Hyundai,  Goldstar and
Trigem  in  Korea;  and  Tatung,  Sampo, Twinhead and Vertos
Technologies  in  Taiwan.   In addition, Opus and RDI in the
United States will also support the product.

According  to Dataquest, a market research firm based in San
Jose,  Calif.,  the Japanese UNIX market has experienced the
world's  fastest  growth  during the past five years with an
89.6  percent  compound  annual growth rate (units shipped).
Dataquest  expects  the Asia-Pacific market (all Pacific Rim
excluding Japan) to enjoy the world's fastest growth rate in
the  UNIX  business  market  for  the  next  five years at a
compound annual growth rate of 41.8 percent (units shipped).
In  addition, SPARC systems running SunSoft's Solaris system
software  are  the  volume  leaders  in the workstation UNIX
market in Japan, Korea and Taiwan.

``Market  presence  in  Asia  will be key in determining the
worldwide winners of the system software battle,'' said Bill
Larson,  vice  president  of sales and marketing at SunSoft.
``With  today's announcement and our future products, we are
well  positioned  to be a driving force in the growing Asian
market.''

SunSoft's  Solaris  1.0  solution is based on the industry's
leading 32-bit multitasking operating system, SunOS, and the
world's  standard networking technology, ONC.  It features a
robust  application  development environment, which includes
OpenWindows  Version  2,  and  a desktop metaphor defined by
DeskSet  Version  2, which uses the OPEN LOOK graphical user
interface.

Asian  Solaris  1.0  provides  localized  components for the
operating  system,  application  development environment and
desktop  metaphor,  allowing  end users, software developers
and system administrators to operate within a familiar local
context.

Asian  Solaris  1.0  features localized DeskSet environment,
which  includes  icons  that are internationally understood,
localized conventions such as date and time formats, scripts
in  varying  languages  and  a  fully  localized  OPEN  LOOK
interface.

The  product  also  offers  software  developers a localized
OpenWindows development environment, enabling them to create
applications  in  different  Asian languages.  Asian Solaris
1.0 is available in Japanese, Korean, in traditional Chinese
characters   used   in  Taiwan  and  in  simplified  Chinese
characters used in the People's Republic of China.

The   Asian  Solaris  1.0  product  provides  users  with  a
migration    path    to   Asian   Solaris   2.0,   SunSoft's
next-generation  distributed  computing  solution  based  on
System  V  Release  4  (SVR4),  since  both products will be
largely source code compatible.

Asian  Solaris  2.0  will  be  available  for the industry's
highest  volume  RISC  and CISC platforms -- SPARC and Intel
80X86.   Early  access releases of Asian Solaris 2.0 will be
available in the second half of calendar year 1992.

Asian  Solaris  1.0  is  available  immediately for computer
system  manufacturers.   The  Japanese  Solaris 1.0 solution
includes  the  Kanji  characters  and  Hiragana and Katakana
alphabets  and  has  a  suggested  retail price ranging from
$1,195   for  low-cost  commercial  systems  to  $5,595  for
high-end  commercial  systems.   The  traditional  character
Chinese  Solaris  1.0  and  the simplified character Chinese
Solaris 1.0 have suggested retail prices ranging from $1,095
to $5,595.

Product  inquiries should be directed to Sunsoft in Japan at
03-3221-7133   or   to  Sunsoft  in  the  United  States  at
1-800-227-9227.

SunSoft  Inc.,  headquartered in Mountain View, Calif., is a
subsidiary  of  SUN  MICROSYSTEMS  Inc.   The company is the
leading  worldwide supplier of system software solutions for
distributed  computing.   SunSoft's products are targeted at
software  developers,  system  administrators and end users,
and  are licensed by SunSoft and sold through major computer
manufacturers and VARs (value added resellers) worldwide.

Note: 1991 SUN MICROSYSTEMS Inc., Sun, SUN MICROSYSTEMS, the
Sun  logo,  SunSoft,  Solaris,  SunOS,  ONC, OpenWindows and
DeskSet  are  trademarks  or  registered  trademarks  of SUN
MICROSYSTEMS  Inc.   Products  bearing  SPARC trademarks are
based  upon  an  architecture  developed by SUN MICROSYSTEMS
Inc.  SPARC is a registered trademark of SPARC International
Inc.   UNIX  and OPEN LOOK are registered trademarks of UNIX
System  Laboratories.   Intel  is  a registered trademark of
Intel  Corp.   All other products or service names mentioned
herein are trademarks of their respective owners.

CONTACT:  SunSoft  Laura  Ramsey,  415/336-0678  or  Hi-Tech
Public Relations Emily Wanderer, 415/864-5600 08:05 ET

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               * * *  C h i n a   N e w s   D i g e s t  * * *

                                (News Global)

                         Thursday, November 12, 1992

[DJ, 11/10/1992] BEIJING -- Unix System Laboratories Inc., an American
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>From math.psu.edu:/pub/simpson/chinese/unix.software:
------------------------------------------------------------------
Last revised: 04 Feb 1993

For Chinese on a Unix workstation, I recommend the following free
software, available by anonymous ftp:

Windowing system -- X11R5

Chinese terminal emulator -- cxterm (Chinese-capable xterm) [from
cs.purdue.edu:/pub/ygz]

editing Chinese text files -- celvis (Chinese-capable clone of vi)
[from cs.purdue.edu:/pub/ygz] or cemacs (Chinese-capable version of
GNU Emacs) [from math.psu.edu:/pub/simpson/chinese/cemacs], both
running inside cxterm

printing Chinese text files on a Postscript printer -- hz2ps package
[from ahkcus.org:/src/unix]

TeX package -- Unix TeX 3.1 or later, xdvi, dvips 5.4, PostScript printer

Chinese TeX macros and fonts -- Poor Man's Chinese TeX [from
math.psu.edu:pub/simpson/chinese/pmc]

Chinese e-mail and news -- HZ package [from ahkcus.org:/src/unix] and
hztty [from cs.purdue.edu:/pub/ygz]

See ftp.sites for more information on anonymous ftp sites where this
and other Chinese software can be obtained.

Stephen G. Simpson               simpson@math.psu.edu
Department of Mathematics        +1 814 863-0775
Pennsylvania State University    home: +1 814 238-2274
University Park, PA 16802

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> I am new to CCNET-L and I have some questions.How can I read&write
> in unix system?What utilities are needed? I thanks for your help!!!

math.psu.edu, /pub/simpson/chinese/unix.software

Last revised: 25 Feb 1993

For Chinese on a UNIX workstation, I recommend the following free
software, available by anonymous ftp:

Windowing system -- X11R5

Chinese terminal emulator -- cxterm (Chinese-capable xterm) [from
cs.purdue.edu:pub/ygz] (should run in any version of X windows)

editing Chinese text files -- celvis (Chinese-capable clone of vi)
[from cs.purdue.edu:pub/ygz] or cemacs (Chinese macros for GNU Emacs)
[from math.psu.edu:pub/simpson/chinese/cemacs], both running inside
cxterm

printing Chinese text files on a Postscript printer -- hz2ps package
[from ifcss.org:software/unix/print/hz2ps]

printing Chinese text files on non-PostScript printers --
(sorry, I don't know what to recommend)

TeX package -- Unix TeX 3.1 or later, xdvi, dvips 5.4, PostScript printer

Chinese TeX macros and fonts -- Poor Man's Chinese TeX [from
math.psu.edu:pub/simpson/chinese/pmc] (should work with any printer).

Chinese e-mail and news --
HZ package [from ifcss.org:/software/unix/convert/HZ]
and hztty [from cs.purdue.edu:pub/ygz/zW-hz/hztty]

See math.psu.edu:pub/simpson/chinese/ftp.sites for more information on
anonymous ftp sites where this and other Chinese software can be
obtained.

Stephen G. Simpson
Department of Mathematics, Pennsylvania State University
333 McAllister Building, University Park, State College, PA 16802
Office phone: +1 814 863-0775      Internet: simpson@math.psu.edu
Home phone: +1 814 238-2274        Bitnet: T20@PSUVM
FAX: +1 814 865-3735

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Hello networkers,

Just a piece of information.

Currently there is a new Chinese word processor in the market,
named cdp/NOTE.  It is running on UNIX workstations, and using Simplified
Chinese Character Set GB2312.    ^^^^^^

Functions include:
- mail management on Unix
- line/box drawing
- many types of character attributes
- screen split (edit 2 documents at the same time)
- can customize inital setup, function keys and screen display
- can create user-defined characters
- various input methods available
- other normal features of a word processor

If you would like to know more information, you may contact me.

Have a pleasant day!

regards,
ANG
2nd November 1993

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 > Is there already an information source or could someone provide
 > informations on which free/share/commercial software one can use on UNIX
 > for input, processing, previewing and output of Chinese, how to get
 > them, what are their relative merits/restrictions (concerning code etc.)?

My personal recommendations on free Unix software for Chinese are in a
file available for anonymous ftp at
math.psu.edu:/pub/simpson/chinese/info/unix.software.  This is the
software that I use.  Sorry, I can't give a detailed comparison of
various alternatives.  Here are my recommendations:


Last revised: 25 Feb 1993

For Chinese on a UNIX workstation, I recommend the following free
software, available by anonymous ftp:

Windowing system -- X11R5

Chinese terminal emulator -- cxterm (Chinese-capable xterm) [from
cs.purdue.edu:pub/ygz] (should run in any version of X windows)

editing Chinese text files -- celvis (Chinese-capable clone of vi)
[from cs.purdue.edu:pub/ygz] or cemacs (Chinese macros for GNU Emacs)
[from math.psu.edu:pub/simpson/chinese/cemacs], both running inside
cxterm

printing Chinese text files on a Postscript printer -- hz2ps package
[from ifcss.org:software/unix/print/hz2ps]

printing Chinese text files on non-PostScript printers --
(sorry, I don't know what to recommend)

TeX package -- Unix TeX 3.1 or later, xdvi, dvips 5.4, PostScript printer

Chinese TeX macros and fonts -- Poor Man's Chinese TeX [from
math.psu.edu:pub/simpson/chinese/pmc] (should work with any printer).

Chinese e-mail and news --
HZ package [from ifcss.org:/software/unix/convert/HZ]
and hztty [from cs.purdue.edu:pub/ygz/zW-hz/hztty]

See math.psu.edu:pub/simpson/chinese/info/ftp.sites for more
information on anonymous ftp sites where this and other Chinese
software can be obtained.

Stephen G. Simpson
Department of Mathematics, Pennsylvania State University
333 McAllister Building, University Park, State College, PA 16802
Office phone: +1 814 863-0775      Internet: simpson@math.psu.edu
Home phone: +1 814 238-2274        Bitnet: T20@PSUVM
FAX: +1 814 865-3735

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A Chinese Unix system can be a "full" Chinese computing environment,
including kernel, libraries, commands, utilities, and so on. Not just
a user interface. For example, it may have a Stream module which can
be pushed into system to convert encoding between EUC and 7-bit GB.
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in various encodings (ISO 2022, GB, Big-5, etc.). The "smallest"
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| Date: Tue, 21 Nov 1995 12:44:08 PST
| From: Paul Law <plaw@FUTON.SFSU.EDU>
|
| Has anyone been able to setup Netscape Navigator 2.0b2 (UNIX) to use
| big5 font files for HTML pages encoded in big5? I use a set of big5
| fonts for Mosaic 2.4 L10N for HP-UX and Linux without problem. It
| seems to me that Netscape doesn't like my current font environment. I
| get the following message every time Netscape is started up:

1. You should use *CNS font* files, *NOT* big5 font files which were
        used for cxterm or other packages. Nescape (more precisely,
        X11R5 against which netscape was linking) are using CNS11643
        as the internal encoding for showning Big5 or CNS articles.

   Note that, unlike Big5, which use one font file for both the most
   frequently used characters and less frequently used characters,
   the CNS fonts has (at least, up to now) 7 character planes. Planes
   1 and 2 characters is a superset of Big5 characters. So you have
   to get both plane-1 and plane-2 characters.

   Get them from ftp.ifcss.org:/pub/software/fonts/cns/bdf

   for cns1hku16.bdf.gz, cns2hku16.bdf.gz and/or cns-?24.bdf.gz

   (You can use your original Big5/Other fonts to customize the various
    menu bottons into chinese/big5 though. See step 3. below.)

   Installation of fonts include:

        1. copy fonts to your font directory

           For BDF format, you can use 'convertfont' (SUNOS) or
           'bdftopcf' (generic X) to get the properly formatted
           font files.

        2. edit font aliases

           in SunOS:
                1. edit Synonyms.list
                2. run 'bldfamily'

           in generic X11R5/R6 environments:
                use the 'mkfontdir' command
                and edit 'fonts.alias'

           (see manual pages for detail)

        3. include the font paths if the font directory is
           not in default font directories:

           xset fp+ your_font_dir
           xset fp rehash

           (These statements can be included at the end of
           your .xinitrc.)

2. After installing the CNS fonts, use 'xlsfonts' to see what the
   charset-encoding fields of the font files are so that you can set
   $HOME/.Xdefaults correctly. For example:

   if 'xlsfonts | grep cns' gives you:

   -cbs-song-medium-r-normal-fantizi-40-400-75-75-c-400-cns11643.1992.1-0
   -cbs-song-medium-r-normal-fantizi-40-400-75-75-c-400-cns11643.1992.2-0
   -hku-fixed-medium-r-normal--16-160-72-72-c-160-cns11643.1992.1-0
   -hku-fixed-medium-r-normal--16-160-72-72-c-160-cns11643.1992.2-0

   then add the following lines to your $HOME/.Xdefaults to match
   the suffices 'cns11643.1992.1-0' and 'cns11643.1992.2-0' as follows:

   Netscape*documentFonts.charset*cns11643.1992.1-0:       x-cns11643-1
   Netscape*documentFonts.charset*cns11643.1992.2-0:       x-cns11643-2

   (*cns11643.1992.1-0: CNS plane-1 characters, *.1992.2-0: plane-2 chars)
   (*. Don't comment out plane-2 chars, i.e., x-cns11643-2 lines,
       otherwise, some less frerquently used chars in Big5 will be
       invisible, although the chance is small.)

   You don't need to care about those '...charset*big5.hku' stuffs
   because, obviously, Netscape are not using them directly for display.

   (That's why your Big5 fonts does not work no matter how many Big5
   fonts you have in your system.)

   But, to avoid the error messages as shown in your email, you could
   follow the same way to add things like:

   Netscape*documentFonts.charset*big5.XYZ-0:   big5

   So that it won't produce messages like"

        charset fixed big5.XYZ-0
        internal fixed big5.XYZ-0 big5.XYZ-0
        charsetlang big5.XYZ-0

   (These messages mean that netscape found something in your font
   aliases like *-big5.XYZ-0, but the resource file $HOME/.Xdefaults
   or Netscape(.ad) does not contain such stuffs.)

3. To change the menu items into Chinese strings, you can change
   the 'fontList' property of the various menu objects. (This trick
   is not mentioned in netscape docs. It is simply a general X
   practice.) For example, if you want to change the "File" menu
   into Chinese "Dang3-An4", you could change, according to Netscape.ad:

   *menuBar.file.labelString:              File

   into ($HOME/.Xdefaults)

   Netscape*menuBar.file.labelString:   Dang3-An4 (CNS string)
   Netscape*menuBar.file.fontList:\
   -cbs-song-medium-r-normal-fantizi-40-400-75-75-c-400-cns11643.1992.1-0

   where Dang3-An4 is a CNS string for "File" and the associated
   fontList is the font name or font alias of a (list of) CNS fonts.

   If you don't have a way to enter CNS strings, you can enter Big5
   (or even GB) strings and use some conversion utilities,
   like 'ccf' in the BeTTY package to make such conversion:

        ccf -bn < .Xdefaults.b5 > .Xdefaults(.cns)

   Another way is to use a Big5 font directly without such conversion:

   Netscape*menuBar.file.labelString:   Dang3-An4 (Big5 string)
   Netscape*menuBar.file.fontList:      big5_font_name_or_alias

   The same should be true if you have some GB fonts.

   Note: if you want to use English and Chinese in the same menu bar,
   you must use the 'Full-width' english symbols, instead of ASCII
   characters, in the above strings. This is a limitation of X11's
   current implementation; it only associate one character set with a
   string; it won't allow something like ASCII+Big5 or ASCII+GB
   mixture in the objects.

4. You can now use netscape to read Big5 WWW site articles after
   making the resource available to netscape as follows:

        xrdb -merge $HOME/.Xdefaults    # if you are currently in X
        netscape &
        (choose 'option -> language Encoding -> Big5')

|
| face normal-r
| face normal-r
| face normal-r
| face normal-r
| face normal-r
| charset fixed big5.hku-0
| internal fixed big5.hku-0 big5.hku-0
| charsetlang big5.hku-0
| charset fixed big5.hku-0
| internal fixed big5.hku-0 big5.hku-0
| charsetlang big5.hku-0
| charset fixed big5.hku-0
| internal fixed big5.hku-0 big5.hku-0
| charsetlang big5.hku-0
| charset ming big5.hku-0
| internal ming big5.hku-0 big5.hku-0
| charsetlang big5.hku-0
| charset ming big5.hku-0
| internal ming big5.hku-0 big5.hku-0
| charsetlang big5.hku-0
|
| Does anyone know what's the proper way to setup the font environment
| for Netscape or what these messages mean?
|
| Thank you for any information.
|
| Paul Law
| plaw@hpasdd.mayfield.hp.com
|

