Traditional Chinese Font Sets

In the Traditional Chinese OpenWindows environment, a font set is composed of one Roman font (presenting codeset 0 or ASCII characters in ISO8859 standard) and nine Chinese fonts (presenting plane 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 15, and 16 characters in CNS 11643).

Asian Solaris software provides only plane 1, 2, and 3 characters.

The Asian OpenWindows environment provides some default font sets defined in a Chinese font set definition file:

/usr/openwin/lib/locale/zh_TW/OW_FONT_SETS/OpenWindows.fs

The following is part of this file:

! (14 points, proportional)
-sun-sung-medium-r-normal--16-140-75-75-p-140-tchinese-0:definition,\
    -b&h-lucida-medium-r-normal-sans-0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1,\
    -sun-sung-medium-r-normal--16-140-75-75-c-140-cns11643-1,\
    -sun-sung-medium-r-normal--16-140-75-75-c-140-cns11643-2,\
    -sun-sung-medium-r-normal--16-140-75-75-c-140-cns11643-3,\
    -sun-sung-medium-r-normal--16-140-75-75-c-140-cns11643-4,\
    -sun-sung-medium-r-normal--16-140-75-75-c-140-cns11643-5,\
    -sun-sung-medium-r-normal--16-140-75-75-c-140-cns11643-6,\
    -sun-sung-medium-r-normal--16-140-75-75-c-140-cns11643-7,\
    -sun-sung-medium-r-normal--16-140-75-75-c-140-cns11643-15,\
    -sun-sung-medium-r-normal--16-140-75-75-c-140-cns11643-16

The following line describes the Roman font:

"-sun-sung-medium-r-normal--16-140-75-75-p-140-tchinese-0"

The following line describes the codeset 0 (ASCII) character display:

"-b&h-lucida-medium-r-normal-sans-0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1"

The following line describes the plane 1 (codeset 1) Chinese character display:

"-sun-sung-medium-r-normal--16-140-75-75-c-140-cns11643-1"

The following line describes the plane 2 (codeset 2) Chinese character display:

"-sun-sung-medium-r-normal--16-140-75-75-c-140-cns11643-2"

The following line describes the plane 3 (codeset 2) Chinese character display:

"-sun-sung-medium-r-normal--16-140-75-75-c-140-cns11643-3"

Note the default font sets defined in the Asian OpenWindows environment:

-sun-sung-medium-r-normal--14-120-75-75-c-120-tchinese-0
-sun-sung-medium-r-normal--16-140-75-75-p-140-tchinese-0
-sun-sung-medium-r-normal--16-140-75-75-c-140-tchinese-0
-sun-sung-medium-r-normal--18-160-75-75-c-160-tchinese-0
-sun-sung-medium-r-normal--22-200-75-75-c-200-tchinese-0
-sun-sung-medium-r-normal--26-240-75-75-c-240-tchinese-0
-sun-sung-bold-r-normal--16-140-75-75-p-140-tchinese-0
-sun-sung-bold-r-normal--16-140-75-75-c-140-tchinese-0

The font set name alias definitions are also provided in /usr/openwin/lib/locale/zh_TW/OW_FONT_SETS/OpenWindows.fs.

The following is an alias definition line in the file:

sung14: alias, -sun-sung-medium-r-normal--16-140-75-75-c-140-tchinese-0

You can use sung14 instead of -sun-sung-medium-r-normal--16-140-75-75-c-140-tchinese-0 to access the font set.

For the complete definitions of these and other font sets, see the /usr/openwin/lib/locale/zh_TW/OW_FONT_SETS/OpenWindows.fs file and XView Developer's Notes.

Traditional Chinese Scalable Fonts

The scalable fonts corresponding to CNS 11643 can be also be accessed from the X side by calling XCreateFontSet. For example, the following code creates a font set consisting of scalable Lucida fonts scaled to 33 pixels, and scalable Ming-Light Chinese fonts for planes 1, 2, and 3 scaled to 33 points.

fs = XCreateFontSet(display,
       "-b&h-lucida-medium-r-normal-sans-33-*-*-*-p-*-iso8859-1,\
       -dynalab-ming-light-r-normal--*-330-*-*-m-*-cns11643-1,\
       -dynalab-ming-light-r-normal--*-330-*-*-m-*-cns11643-2,\
       -dynalab-ming-light-r-normal--*-330-*-*-m-*-cns11643-3",
       &missing_ptr,
       &missing_count,
       &def_string);

Using a Traditional Chinese Font on the Command Line

A command line that starts an Asian OpenWindows tool can also specify its font.

When the current locale is zh_TW, the command should refer to a font-set name (explained in the following section), for example:

system% cmdtool -font sung24 

The flags -font, -Wt, and -fn all work the same in this kind of command. However, when the current locale is C (ASCII), the font name should refer only to the long XLFD name:

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