Hello Dmitry,
On Sun, Feb 24, 2002 at 07:32:09PM +0800, Dmitry Timoshkov wrote:
"Anthony Fok" anthony@thizlinux.com wrote:
We are experimenting some problems with displaying and inputting Chinese characters in WINE (January 2002 or newer). For example, most Chinese characters show up as squares,
Probably some font misconfiguration problem. Apparently displaying of Chinese characters should work since output of Japanese characters admittedly works.
Thanks for your advice. After tweaking the font settings ~/.wine/config, we were able to get notepad to display Chinese text. However, it seems to only work with bitmap fonts like -taipei-*-; it had some problems with the Arphic TrueType fonts that it seems Wine was using a different character set to display the characters. We'll do more investigation. :-)
and it seems that WINE doesn't accept Chinese input via XCIN (an input method server using the XIM protocol). Did we misconfigured something? Or is this a known problem in WINE? Any pointers would be appreciated. Thanks!
I'm afraid that correct input of Chinese and any multibyte characters will require almost complete rewrite of the Wine keyboard code using X Input Method/Input Context. Simultaneously it will solve the problem with dead keys.
Unfortunately nobody worked on that problems yet. Do you want to try?
Yes, we are willing to give it a try. How big a task is this? Where should we start? Which files need to be modified? (I am new to Wine, so any starters/pointers would be helpful.) :-) Many thanks for your help!
Cheers,
Anthony