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cmd:rxvt in RH9

Usage

LANG=zh_TW rxvt &

alias gbrxvt='LANG=zh_CN.GB2312 rxvt -sl 1500 -bg black -fg gray78 -fn 8x16 -fm '\''"-isas-fangsong ti-*-16-*-gb2312.1980-0"'\'' -km gb >/dev/null &'

Installation

rpmih /export/linux/mustH_rh9/RPMS/rxvt-2.7.10-4mdk.i586.rpm

Working History

WARNING

$ LANG=zh_TW rxvt &
WARNING!!
rxvt is unable to display in BIG5 encoding
you should use xterm instead

— Ignore it, rxvt shows BIG5 well

zh_CN need twisting

LANG=zh_CN.GB2312 rxvt and previous gbrxvt (using M$ fonts) not OK.

gb-input

LANG=zh_CN.GB18030 XMODIFIERS=@im=Chinput rxvt -sl 1500 -bg black -fg gray78 -fn 8x16 -fm '"-isas-fangsong ti-*-16-*-gb2312.1980-0"' -km gb >/dev/null &

— Ok to show CC. But input Nok, while gbgt works fine.

cmd:rxvt in RH8

Conclusion

Under RH8, when TrueType fonts are rendered through freetype, rxvt can only use bitmap fonts. Both native Chinese TrueType font and mine will not work. Thirdly, rxvt is only good for showing Chinese, not input them, because it will 'segmentation fault' on trying to do both showing & inputing.

Test result

$ aliasf gbrx
alias gbrxvt='do_bg LANG=zh_CN rxvt -sl 1500 -bg black -fg gray70 -fn fixed -fb 6x13bold -km gb -fm -microsoft-simsun-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-c-0-gb2312.1980-0'
alias gbrxvt0='do_bg LANG=zh_CN rxvt -sl 1500 -bg black -fg gray70 -fn 8x16 -fm '\''"-isas-fangsong ti-*-16-*-gb2312.1980-0"'\'' -km gb'

gbrxvt0

— ok to show CC

gbrxvt

— nok, no CC shonw, even menu is in Chinese, font size smaller than previous cd mlterm-2.8.0

$ patch -p0 < ../mlterm-2.8.0pl1/mlterm-2.8.0pl1.patch
patching file xwindow/x_font_cache.c
patching file xwindow/version.h.in

./configure --with-x --with-imagelib=imlib --with-gnu-ld --disable-rpath --disable-scrollbars

LANG=zh_CN rxvt -sl 1500 -bg black -fg gray70 -fn fixed -fb 6x13bold -km gb -fm -misc-zysong18030-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-c-0-gb2312.1980-0

— still nok, no CC shonw. Menu in Chinese, font size same as previous

$ LANG=zh_CN XMODIFIERS=@im=Chinput rxvt -sl 1500 -bg black -fg gray70 -fn 8x16 -fm '"-isas-fangsong ti-*-16-*-gb2312.1980-0"' -km gb
Segmentation fault
rxvt: could not obtain control of tty
XIO:  fatal IO error 9 (Bad file descriptor) on X server ":0.0"
      after 218 requests (215 known processed) with 10 events remaining.

cmd:rxvt in RH7.3

Strange, I had been able to run rxvt in rh7, even with both LANG & XMODIFIERS envars set. Just that it couldn't input Chinese. And now, strangly, I can't start it any more.

rxvt from Chinese gnome-terminal

Go on start rxvt:

$ LANG=zh_CN.GB18030 XMODIFIERS=@im=Chinput rxvt &
rxvt: could not obtain control of tty
XIO:  fatal IO error 9 (Bad file descriptor) on X server ":0.0"
      after 207 requests (204 known processed) with 29 events remaining.

[1]+  Segmentation fault      LANG=zh_CN.GB18030 XMODIFIERS=@im=Chinput rxvt

rxvt &

— same error as above

start from xterm, same error as above.

rxvt from English gnome-terminal

Starting 'LANG=zh_CN.GB18030 XMODIFIERS=@im=Chinput rxvt' from English gnome-terminal result the same as above. So does 'LANG=zh_CN.GB18030 rxvt & '

However, it is possible to start:

XMODIFIERS=@im=Chinput rxvt

LANG=zh_CN.GB18030; GDM_LANG=zh_CN.GB18030

date

— Chinese in 'luanma'.

This is the same result as Starting 'XMODIFIERS=@im=Chinput gnome-terminal' from English gnome-terminal (w/o LANG=zh_CN.GB18030)