Chinese Support in N800

[BigBoss]

I would like to browse websites with Chinese characters. Can anyone tell me how to do? Though I hv read most of the threads in this forum, I still feel confused and don't know how to do since I am really a newb to Maemo & Linux. If anyone can post the procedures step by step in details (even the command sentence :o ), it will be much appreciated. Thanks.

[henry]

There are several ways to make the opera browser in N800 display traditional chinese characters.

I think this is the easiest. Use this package from the maemocjk project: http://maemocjk.garage.maemo.org/dists/bora/user/binary-armel/ttf-arphic-ukai_0.1.20060513-1maemo1_all.deb

Just download the file and install in using the application manager. Don't forget to reboot the device after installation.

[henry]

A note for (advanced) 770 users. The above deb package will not work on the 770. At least not directly. Installing will give an error (apparently the fc-cache command has changed)

To install on the 770, one needs to download and extract the package, become root to copy the ttf font to /usr/share/fonts, issue fc-cache -fv to refresh the font cache and finally to a reboot.

Please let me know if anyone needs more detailed instructions :)

[BigBoss]

Thank you Henry.

The above deb package is good however it will disable the original input method. What I want is to display Chinese characters especially during web browsing. Chinese Input is not that necessary.

[henry]

Well if you choose to install the maemo-chinese-support package, then the original input method is replaced. If you only install the true type font package (link in prev. message) then the original input method is still there.

[BigBoss]

Any single file installation?

I believe I have read the message of installing fonts you mentioned. However, I think I need step by step in details (even the command sentence) coz I even don't know how to become root :(

[henry]

@BigBoss

The second message was for 770 owners only. For N800 it's really simple.
Just open this link in your N800: http://maemocjk.garage.maemo.org/dists/bora/user/binary-armel/ttf-arphic-ukai_0.1.20060513-1maemo1_all.deb

Choose to open the deb file. (or save is somewhere first and use file manager to open) After installation, reboot. That's all.

[BigBoss]

Dear Henry, this will disable the original input method, right? It is what I don't want to be happened.

[BigBoss]

Dear Henry, I hv made mistake. The link above is just installing the fonts, right? Pls confirm.

[henry]

Dear Henry, I hv made mistake. The link above is just installing the fonts, right? Pls confirm.

Yes, it just install the fonts.

[freeman]

So, is there a DEB package for Thai support?

[BigBoss]

Dear Henry, my N800 works perfectly in browsing Chinese website now. Thank you very much for your help.

[henry]

So, is there a DEB package for Thai support?

none that i know of. if you have a true type font, you can put it into /usr/share/fonts and use fc-cache command to refresh the font cache.

You might also consider asking the maemocjk project to include thai support.

[Jay]

I have installed the maemo cjk and loved it. One question though, where can I find the common symbols, - colon, at, pipe, question mark etc. ? I found some but not all under ja pad - dot however they look like 2 byte characters so I guess they won t work for password...
Just can t figure out...

[ryakir]

Henry,

Could you please post a step by step for the 770 ?

Thanks for your help,

Ron


A note for (advanced) 770 users. The above deb package will not work on the 770. At least not directly. Installing will give an error (apparently the fc-cache command has changed)

To install on the 770, one needs to download and extract the package, become root to copy the ttf font to /usr/share/fonts, issue fc-cache -fv to refresh the font cache and finally to a reboot.

Please let me know if anyone needs more detailed instructions :)

[henry]

Henry,

Could you please post a step by step for the 770 ?

Thanks for your help,

Ron

First of all, for this to work, you need xterm and know how to become root. (see http://maemo.org/maemowiki/HowTo_EASILY_BecomeRoot) Also, to save internal flash memory, the font will be placed on the memory card.

Here are the steps:

Download the true type font from maemocjk's subversion repository:

use browser to go to https://garage.maemo.org/plugins/scmsvn/viewcvs.php/trunk/?root=maemocjk
select ttf-arphic-ukai-0.1.20060513-maemo/ (versioen number might
change)
select ukai.ttf
select to download.
save font to memory card. For example in the subdirectory fonts. (Below I assume that ukai.ttf is downloaded to /media/mmc1/fonts/)

start xterm and become root
type:

cd /usr/share/fonts
ln -s /media/mmc1/fonts/ukai.ttf .
fc-cache -fv

wait for fc-cache to finish
reboot device

[wolfg]

A note for (advanced) 770 users. The above deb package will not work on the 770. At least not directly. Installing will give an error (apparently the fc-cache command has changed)

To install on the 770, one needs to download and extract the package, become root to copy the ttf font to /usr/share/fonts, issue fc-cache -fv to refresh the font cache and finally to a reboot.

Please let me know if anyone needs more detailed instructions :)

Or install an alternative font ttf-firefly. Download it from http://guoyong.org/?dl=ttf-firefly-1.3.0.deb
or use this repository
Web address: http://maemo.guoyong.org/
Distribution: mistral
Components: user
Applications: ttf-firefly themes-zh-14pt

[ilovbabyg]

Well if you choose to install the maemo-chinese-support package, then the original input method is replaced. If you only install the true type font package (link in prev. message) then the original input method is still there.

I think I've read every post possible, or maybe I'm just too new to this, and not really understanding how it works. But I've installed every possible file I could install for this Chinese Support Input Method. Ｉjust don't understand, why the original keyboard disappears after I install the CJK Input method from http://maemocjk.garage.maemo.org/os2008.html for N800 on OS2008. If there's now keyboard, then there's no kind "typing" possible at all, correct?

It sounds as if this works for some people, and doesn't work for other people? Is that the case? Does this Chinese Input method work for anybody out there? Maybe I'm missing a step that I'm not doing, but I've basically followed all the steps from http://maemocjk.garage.maemo.org/os2008.html.

Please help! I'm desperate! I've re-flashed my Nokia N800 few too many times already! (Because it won't let me un-install the chinese input files as well >_<) Or that I just really don't know how, and I consider myself a pretty savvy PC user (strictly Windows that is, first time Linux user).

[ch8xy]

If you have OS2008 on your N800 and don't care much about input, then you will get the best Chinese browsing experience by copying arialuni.ttf from your XP computer to /usr/share/fonts/.

[ilovbabyg]

Well, that's the thing I, in fact, would like to INPUT Chinese. I don't have any problems VIEWING Chinese at this moment.

[ch8xy]

I guess we have to wait for the OS2008 version of "CJK support" to come out. The OS2007 version worked.

[ch8xy]

Try: http://www.inputking.com/. It works, sort of.

[ilovbabyg]

hmm..that's quite an interesting website. It works very well on a computer, but sad to say it doesn't work on the tablet :(. Thanks for the effort though! Appreciate it! Hope there is some resolution to this topic very soon!

[ch8xy]

Why wouldn't it work on N800? I tested on mine before posting the message. It worked, albeit clumsily.