Unicode support in shell

[ahmad hassan]

Hi,

I have finally found out that Suse linux 9.1 atleast displays the file i 
have in japanese correctly on the shell but i think it is using X server 
functionality. I did that by setting the locale to en_JP.shjis and relogin. 
As i told u i have my own built mini linux distro with busybox so what are 
the things needed to display CJK correctly.  I think i need some sort of 
terminal emulator or i can do without it.  I have framebuffer and vga mode 
support both in my kernel. How to do that i seriously need your help if you 
can help.

Do i need some fonts. I have checked the option for locale support as well 
into busybox now.

Regards,
Ahmad



>From: Rob Landley <rob at landley.net>
>To: "ahmad hassan" <guideveloper123 at hotmail.com>
>Subject: Re: Unicode support in shell
>Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2005 23:38:03 -0500
>
>On Sunday 23 October 2005 03:06, ahmad hassan wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I am using ash shell and have an ncurses application running over it. So 
>i
> > think its kernel mode  tty i am using.
>
>Standard vga mode, or frame buffer?
>
> > I have also added the unicode pages for CJK and UTF8 from kernel.
>
>In the filesystem menu?  That's for things like samba support, not for the
>video display.
>
> > Now what do i have to do to make the unicode
> > characters like japanese characters get displayed.
>
>In text mode, you need a japanese font loaded, that's one thing.  Does your
>bios have a japanese font?  (man consolechars)
>
> > I have the japanese  string as ANSI file
>
>Now there's a trick.  ANSI doesn't include japanese characters.  Do you 
>mean
>UTF8?
>
> > and i have to read the string resources
>
>By "read the string resources" do you mean something other than load the 
>raw
>data from disk?
>
> > and just   display them in appropriate charset.
>
>Ok, so you are setting the character set.  How do you specify "the 
>appropriate
>charset"?
>
> > One thing more just by adding kernel
> > mode support for western languagues i had them displayed appropriately.
>
>Anything that uses the 26 character latin alphabet (plus a few diacritical
>marks) is already supported by the standard IBM vga font circa 1981.
>
>Did you get a "hello world" style program to print out japanese characters?
>
> > Best Regards,
> > Ahmad.
>
>Rob

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