Unicode, UTF-8 and CJK support

[ricce_n]

I have just installed Lunar on my laptop (or it isn't fully installed jet) - but there is a few things i am missing...

Unicode and UTF-8:
This shuld be quite easy to fix - you need a few new locales in the menu for selecting locale in the glibc module. locales like:
en_US.UTF-8/UTF-8
sv_SE.UTF-8/UTF-8

You also need to change a few things in the rc scripts to change the terminal to a UTF-8 terminal.



CJK (Chinese Japanese Korean)
Chinese, Japanese and Korean have more chars that fits on a normal keybord therfor some intelegent person developed IM (Input Methode) - it is simpely you write 1 character by typing combinations of keys.

In Linux/X11 the program handeling IM is called UIM (Universal Input Methode):
http://uim.freedesktop.org/wiki/

For Japanese input UIM will require Anthy:
http://sourceforge.jp/projects/anthy

You will probebly need other programs to Chinese and Korean but I don't know what programs..

UIM is REQUIRING an UTF-8 locale to work!!!


I can probebly find out how to build uim and anthy - but I still need help to tweek the rc script and glibc module to support UTF-8 locale.

[sofar]

just build glibc WITHOUT selecting locales - it will build ALL available, including utf-8 ones.

[ricce_n]

@sofar: thx that fixed it

As for my make UIM and Anty mdules project hear is soma basic fonts:

DETAILS:

[ricce_n]

Anthy 7100b done - nothing can be easier

DETAILS

[sofar]

I added both modules to moonbase

PLEASE - don't use the forum to submit modules. Use the MAILINGLIST for this. The forum doesn't get scanned for submissions and it is by mere luck that I saw it myself.