Specifying a Font on the Command Line

A command line that starts a Simplified Chinese OpenWindows application can specify the application's font. When the current locale is Simplified Chinese, the command uses one of the defined font-set aliases instead (explained in the following section), for example:

system% cmdtool -font fontset_name &

But when the current locale is C the command uses a font name and cannot use a font-set alias. The following shows a command using the long name of an ASCII character font:

system% cmdtool -font -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--9-80-100-100-c-60-iso8859-1 &

Font Set Names

Simplified Chinese Solaris software provides several Song-style font sets that combine two or more fonts so both English and Chinese characters can be used together in one window. Each font set comprises one Roman font (ASCII characters) in the ISO8859 standard plus a bitmap Chinese font specified in GB2312-80. A few examples are:

• song12

• song14

• songb14

• song16

• song20

• song24

Each of these font sets is made up of two font files. The $OPENWINHOME/lib/locale/zh/OW_FONT_SETS/OpenWindows.fs file defines the full Simplified Chinese Solaris font set.