Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 80863
About chinese in console ( NOT in X Window )
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:49:26 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; zh-CN; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021207 Phoenix/0.5 Description of problem: > I choose Chinese language support and use Chinese when I install Redhat > 8.0 with my disks. > when I use some system config tools such as "setup" under console (NOT > in X Window) I see the text can't be display correctly.I think those is > Chinese. > I know a software can display Chinese that is call "zhcon". > > Here are the web about zhcon. > I hope you can see whether it is good to add zhcon into Redhat. > http://zhcon.gnuchina.org/index.html > http://sourceforge.net/projects/zhcon/ > ftp://ftp.gnuchina.org/pub/linux/chinese/inputmethod/console/zhcon/ Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.choose chinese as the language of the system 2.log in as root under the console in text mode ( NOT in X Window ) 3.type "setup" Actual Results: the "setup" runs but display chinese incorrectly Expected Results: display chinese correctly Additional info:
bterm can be used as a workaround for utf-8 chinese (and other hanxi/hanja/kanji base languages). however, setup and the other terminals, for chinese, should be run in gnome-terminal or something similar for the best support. the next release should have a console based CJK solution.