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footnotes

... gott!¹

this document is encoded in utf-8. please switch your browser to utf-8 if it doesn't already do that automatically. if you have suitable fonts installed and selected you should see this ``hello!'' greatings correctly in english, traditional chinese, simplified chinese, japanese, korean, and german.

... cjk²

chinese, japanese, and korean

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• contents
• list of figures
• list of tables
• downloads
  • mirrors
  
  
• openi18n specification conformance
  • suse linux 8.1
    • automatic tests
    • interactive tests
  • suse linux 8.0
    • automatic tests
    • interactive tests
  
  
• locales
  • environment variables
  • system defaults and user settings
  • examples
  
  
• unicode
  • what is unicode and why use it?
  • unicode encodings
  • setup your suse linux system to use utf-8
  • further reading and interesting unicode related links
  
  
• fonts
  • fonts for x11
    • fontconfig and xft
    • x11 core fonts
      • unicode fonts
      • japanese
      • korean
      • simplified chinese
      • traditional chinese
      • fontsets and the xlc_locale files
    • x11 font server
      • xfs
      • xfstt
  • bitmap fonts
    • available cjk bitmap font packages
    • available bitmap font packages for printing with emacs
  • truetype and opentype fonts
    • available cjk truetype font packages
    • switching the byte code interpreter in freetype2 on or off
  • cid-keyed fonts
  • type 1 fonts
  • installing additional fonts
    • installing additional fonts on older suse linux systems
  
  
• input
  • xim
    • applications using athena widgets and xim
    • automatic starting of an xim server with the x11 session
      • customizing xim server startup
    • kinput2
      • kinput2 and canna
      • kinput2 and wnn
    • nicolatter
      • usage of nicolatter
      • remarks about nicolatter and canna
    • atok x
    • ami
    • xcin
    • scim
  • conversion backends
    • canna
      • security note: controlling the access to the cannaserver
      • canna and japanese pc keyboards
      • remove conflict of xim and the native (x)emacs/canna interface
    • freewnn
    • wxg
  • input methods which do not use xim
    • canuum
    • uum
    • nvi-m17n
    • emacs
    • xemacs
    • hanterm
  • kanjipad
  
  
• kde3
  • improved qt3 packages
  • choosing the input style
  • choosing fonts for cjk
  • embedding fonts for printing
  
  
• terminal emulators
  • xterm
  • mlterm
  • libiterm, xiterm, gtkiterm
  • kterm
  • rxvt
  
  
• cjk and utf-8 on the text console
  • unicode and utf-8 on the text console
  • fbiterm
  • jfbterm
    • japanese display using jfbterm
    • japanese input into jfbterm
  • kon2
    • japanese input into kon2
    • korean input into kon2
  
  
• editors
  • vim
  • nvi-m17n
  • mined
  • emacs and xemacs
  • yudit
  
  
• web-browsers
  • mozilla
  • konqueror
  • w3m
  • lynx
  • netscape 4.x
  
  
• mail
  • mutt
  • pine
  
  
• office programs
  • abiword
    • adding new fonts
  
  
• type setting
  • ptex,pl^atex
  • hl^atex
  • cjk-l^atex
  • cjk-lyx
    • fonts for on screen display in cjk-lyx
    • using cjk-lyx for japanese with pl^atex
      • using european languages in the same document
    • using cjk-lyx for korean with hl^atex
    • using cjk-lyx with cjk-l^atex
      • japanese
      • korean
      • chinese (big5)
      • chinese (gb2312)
  
  
• printing
  • printing plain text files
  • printing with embedded fonts
  • ghostscript
    • ghostscript and the kochi-substitute fonts
  • ghostscript older suse linux versions
  
  
• japanese manual pages
  • older suse linux releases
  
  
• dictionaries
  • eb, eblook, lookup.el
  • edict and similar dictionaries
    • edict.el
    • javadict
    • gjiten
    • kiten
    • kdrill
  
  
• encodings and conversion programs
  • converting file contents
  • converting file names
  
  
• windows
  • mounting vfat partitions and cds using the joliet extension
  
  
• known problems
  • 8.2-i386
    • gtk-1 applications display garbage when started from the kde desktop
    • xcin doesn't work for simplified chinese anymore
    • acroread dumps core in utf-8 locales
  • 7.3-i386
    • the locale is sometimes surprisingly resetted to the system default
  • 7.2-i386
    • canuum doesn't work on the linux console
  • 7.1-noarch
    • some japanese files are not displayed correctly by less
    • when using canna in xemacs, typos can't be corrected with backspace
  • 7.1-ppc
    • missing font paths
    • japanese packages are not automatically installed
  
  
• installing things from source
• obsolete stuff
  • suse linux 7.0
    • japanese locale for the glibc
  
  
• interesting links and other resources
• about this document ...

2005-03-09