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11 Replies Last post: Feb 13, 2008 6:04 PM by JDoyle

Unable to enable Chinese input in Linspire 6

Feb 11, 2008 7:54 PM

Click to view Chip Loon Ng's profile Chip Loon Ng 6 posts since
Feb 11, 2008

Dear all,

I have facing problems reading and typing Simplified and Traditional Chinese. What I have did so far was to install the SCIM Chinese input, but no input language toolbar appear.


Thank you very much for your guidance.

Chip

Tags: chinese, input, language
Click to view JDoyle's profile JDoyle 208 posts since
Nov 27, 2007
1. Re: Unable to enable Chinese input in Linspire 6 Feb 11, 2008 8:07 PM

Have you installed the Chinese fonts?

hbf-cns40-b5 ttf-arphic-bkai00mp xcin2.3 ttf2pt1-chinese xfonts-intl-chinese xfonts-intl-asian

JD

Click to view Chip Loon Ng's profile Chip Loon Ng 6 posts since
Feb 11, 2008
2. Re: Unable to enable Chinese input in Linspire 6 Feb 11, 2008 9:00 PM
in response to: JDoyle

Dear Sir,

I have installed the fonts as per your instructions. The Chinese fonts are appearing gibberish and squares with number. Are there steps which I have missed?

I have also restarted the comp.

Thank you so much!

chip

Click to view JDoyle's profile JDoyle 208 posts since
Nov 27, 2007
3. Re: Unable to enable Chinese input in Linspire 6 Feb 11, 2008 9:01 PM
in response to: Chip Loon Ng

How did you install them?


JD

Click to view Chip Loon Ng's profile Chip Loon Ng 6 posts since
Feb 11, 2008
4. Re: Unable to enable Chinese input in Linspire 6 Feb 11, 2008 9:06 PM
in response to: JDoyle

Hi,

I have went to CNR.com, locate the fonts as stated, and click Install. Did i miss anything here?


Chip

Click to view JDoyle's profile JDoyle 208 posts since
Nov 27, 2007
5. Re: Unable to enable Chinese input in Linspire 6 Feb 11, 2008 9:12 PM
in response to: Chip Loon Ng
Just to be sure...

Run these commands: sudo apt-get update


and: sudo apt-get install hbf-cns40-b5 ttf-arphic-bkai00mp xcin2.3 ttf2pt1-chinese xfonts-intl-chinese xfonts-intl-asian


JD

Click to view Chip Loon Ng's profile Chip Loon Ng 6 posts since
Feb 11, 2008
6. Re: Unable to enable Chinese input in Linspire 6 Feb 11, 2008 9:23 PM
in response to: JDoyle

Hi JD,

Below is an extract of the commands listed after running the instruction..I have restarted the comp, and visiting the website www.zaobao.com.sg appears the font in sqaures..

Chip

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xcin2.3 is already the newest version.
xfonts-intl-chinese is already the newest version.
xfonts-intl-asian is already the newest version.
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
libavahi-compat-howl0
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following extra packages will be installed:
hbf-cns40-1 hbf-cns40-2 hbf-cns40-3 libt1-5 t1utils ttf2pt1
Suggested packages:
hbf-cns40-4 hbf-cns40-5 hbf-cns40-6 hbf-cns40-7 tfm-arphic-bkai00mp
x-ttcidfont-conf
Recommended packages:
cjk-latex
The following NEW packages will be installed:
hbf-cns40-1 hbf-cns40-2 hbf-cns40-3 hbf-cns40-b5 libt1-5 t1utils
ttf-arphic-bkai00mp ttf2pt1 ttf2pt1-chinese
0 upgraded, 9 newly installed, 0 to remove and 7 not upgraded.
Need to get 8630kB of archives.
After unpacking 17.5MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue Y/n? y
WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated!
hbf-cns40-1 hbf-cns40-2 hbf-cns40-3 hbf-cns40-b5 libt1-5 t1utils
ttf-arphic-bkai00mp ttf2pt1 ttf2pt1-chinese
Authentication warning overridden.
Get:1 http://apt2.freespire.org feisty/universe hbf-cns40-1 1.0-3.1 543kB
Get:2 http://apt2.freespire.org feisty/universe hbf-cns40-2 1.0-3.1 764kB
Get:3 http://apt2.freespire.org feisty/universe hbf-cns40-3 1.0-3.1 605kB
Get:4 http://apt2.freespire.org feisty/universe hbf-cns40-b5 1.0-3.1 6136B
Get:5 http://apt2.freespire.org feisty-updates/main libt1-5 5.1.0-2ubuntu0.7.04.1 147kB
Get:6 http://apt2.freespire.org feisty/universe t1utils 1.32-1 http://53.8kB
Get:7 http://apt2.freespire.org feisty/main ttf-arphic-bkai00mp 2.10-6.1 5984kB
Get:8 http://apt2.freespire.org feisty/universe ttf2pt1 3.4.4-1.3 227kB
Get:9 http://apt2.freespire.org feisty/universe ttf2pt1-chinese 3.4.0-1.1 300kB
Fetched 8630kB in 40s (213kB/s)
Selecting previously deselected package hbf-cns40-1.
(Reading database ... 77435 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking hbf-cns40-1 (from .../hbf-cns40-1_1.0-3.1_all.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package hbf-cns40-2.
Unpacking hbf-cns40-2 (from .../hbf-cns40-2_1.0-3.1_all.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package hbf-cns40-3.
Unpacking hbf-cns40-3 (from .../hbf-cns40-3_1.0-3.1_all.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package hbf-cns40-b5.
Unpacking hbf-cns40-b5 (from .../hbf-cns40-b5_1.0-3.1_all.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package libt1-5.
Unpacking libt1-5 (from .../libt1-5_5.1.0-2ubuntu0.7.04.1_i386.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package t1utils.
Unpacking t1utils (from .../t1utils_1.32-1_i386.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package ttf-arphic-bkai00mp.
Unpacking ttf-arphic-bkai00mp (from .../ttf-arphic-bkai00mp_2.10-6.1_all.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package ttf2pt1.
Unpacking ttf2pt1 (from .../ttf2pt1_3.4.4-1.3_i386.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package ttf2pt1-chinese.
Unpacking ttf2pt1-chinese (from .../ttf2pt1-chinese_3.4.0-1.1_all.deb) ...
Setting up hbf-cns40-1 (1.0-3.1) ...

Setting up hbf-cns40-2 (1.0-3.1) ...

Setting up hbf-cns40-3 (1.0-3.1) ...

Setting up hbf-cns40-b5 (1.0-3.1) ...

Setting up libt1-5 (5.1.0-2ubuntu0.7.04.1) ...

Setting up t1utils (1.32-1) ...
Setting up ttf-arphic-bkai00mp (2.10-6.1) ...
No CIDSupplement specified for ZenKai-Medium, defaulting to 0.

Setting up ttf2pt1 (3.4.4-1.3) ...
Setting up ttf2pt1-chinese (3.4.0-1.1) ...
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Click to view JDoyle's profile JDoyle 208 posts since
Nov 27, 2007
7. Re: Unable to enable Chinese input in Linspire 6 Feb 12, 2008 5:46 AM
in response to: Chip Loon Ng

Install the suggested packages: sudo apt-get install
hbf-cns40-4 hbf-cns40-5 hbf-cns40-6 hbf-cns40-7 tfm-arphic-bkai00mp
x-ttcidfont-conf


JD

Click to view JDoyle's profile JDoyle 208 posts since
Nov 27, 2007
8. Re: Unable to enable Chinese input in Linspire 6 Feb 12, 2008 8:27 PM
in response to: JDoyle

One more font package: ttf-arphic-ukaiY


JD

Click to view Chip Loon Ng's profile Chip Loon Ng 6 posts since
Feb 11, 2008
9. Re: Unable to enable Chinese input in Linspire 6 Feb 13, 2008 5:25 PM
in response to: JDoyle

hi JD,

I got this message while installing the ttf-arphic-ukaiY font...- chip

============

chiploon@Chip:~$ sudo apt-get install ttf-arphic-ukaiy
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Couldn't find package ttf-arphic-ukaiy
chiploon@Chip:~$ sudo apt-get install x-ttcidfont-conf
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
x-ttcidfont-conf is already the newest version.
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
libavahi-compat-howl0
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 7 not upgraded.
=============================

Click to view Chip Loon Ng's profile Chip Loon Ng 6 posts since
Feb 11, 2008
10. Re: Unable to enable Chinese input in Linspire 6 Feb 13, 2008 5:36 PM
in response to: JDoyle
After restarting the comp, about 85% of the Chinese characters appear. There are some words which still appear with squares. Using SCIM setup, I am unable to input any Chinese characters....hmmm....what other things could be missing?
Click to view JDoyle's profile JDoyle 208 posts since
Nov 27, 2007
11. Re: Unable to enable Chinese input in Linspire 6 Feb 13, 2008 6:04 PM
in response to: Chip Loon Ng

ttf-arphic-ukaiY is case sensitive (captial Y)

The issue is clearly missing fonts, but I do not know of any other Chinese font packages.

JD

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