Re: Chinese User asks How?

On Fri, 06 Jan 2006 23:55:12 GMT, William R. Walsh <newsgroups1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Usually when any operating system has this problem (or, more appropriately,
> any application running under it) the required display fonts are simply
> missing.
>
> Sometimes they can be installed. I don't know for sure if OS/2 has
> additional foreign (DBCS?) character set fonts available for it or not.
> That's a question for someone who uses OS/2 more often than I do. (Which is
> somewhat often--but it's not broken now and I'm not off to 'fix' it at the
> moment.)

Since WSeB, all language versions of OS/2 (and eCS) ship with full
international font support. Of course, the installation is optional.

The default installation options install two Unicode fonts: the
proportional Times New Roman WT J, and the monospaced Monotype Sans
Duospace WT J. Both of these are comprehensive Unicode fonts with CJK
ideographic support (optimized for Japanese forms).

In addition, you can install the same two fonts optimized for Chinese
(either form) or Korean, either instead or as well. You can also install
specific (non-Unicode) Chinese or Japanese fonts from the OS/2 CDs.

In general, Times New Roman WT * and Monotype Sans Duospace WT * are
sufficient for simple display of virtually any major language, including
Chinese. I would recommend that anyone who has Windows 2000 available
also copy over and install the file ARIALUNI.TTF, which provides the Arial
Unicode font -- an excellent sans-serif Unicode font which works
flawlessly under OS/2.

These should give you the ability to display virtually any language under
PM applications, as long as the application itself has the ability to
switch to the appropriate codepage.

For a simple program that demonstrates this capability, you could take a
look at my Double Byte Character Map utility (DBCSMAP) available here:
http://www.cs-club.org/~alex/programming/os2/index.html

--
Alex Taylor
http://www.cs-club.org/~alex

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