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5. Mule and Xemacs 20.0Installing Chinese fonts

5.1 Installing X window fonts

Where to get GB and BIG5 fonts

Most likely you may already have some Chinese fonts sitting in your system. You can find GB fonts by 

# xlsfonts | grep gb
-cclib-song-medium-r-normal--0-0-72-72-c-0-gb2312.1980-1
-cclib-song-medium-r-normal--16-160-72-72-c-160-gb2312.1980-1
-isas-fangsong ti-medium-r-normal--0-0-72-72-c-0-gb2312.1980-0
-isas-fangsong ti-medium-r-normal--16-160-72-72-c-160-gb2312.1980-0
-isas-song ti-medium-r-normal--0-0-72-72-c-0-gb2312.1980-0
-isas-song ti-medium-r-normal--16-160-72-72-c-160-gb2312.1980-0
-isas-song ti-medium-r-normal--24-240-72-72-c-240-gb2312.1980-0
hanzigb13fs
hanzigb13st
hanzigb16fs
hanzigb16st
hanzigb24st
The last five fonts in this case are just the aliases of the first five fonts. Or to find BIG5 fonts 
# xlsfonts | grep big5
-kc-kai-medium-r-normal-fantizi-0-0-75-75-c-0-big5.eten.3.10-1
-kc-kai-medium-r-normal-fantizi-20-200-75-75-c-200-big5.eten.3.10-1
-kc-kai-medium-r-normal-fantizi-24-240-75-75-c-240-big5.eten.3.10-1
-kc-ming-medium-r-normal-fantizi-0-0-75-75-c-0-big5.eten.3.10-1
-kc-ming-medium-r-normal-fantizi-15-150-75-75-c-160-big5.eten.3.10-1
-kc-ming-medium-r-normal-fantizi-24-240-75-75-c-240-big5.eten.3.10-1
-uw-ming-medium-r-normal-fantizi-0-0-75-75-c-0-big5.eten.3.10-1
-uw-ming-medium-r-normal-fantizi-16-160-75-75-c-160-big5.eten.3.10-1
-uw-ming-medium-r-normal-fantizi-20-200-75-75-c-200-big5.eten.3.10-1
-uw-songti-medium-r-normal-fantizi-0-0-75-75-c-0-big5.eten.3.10-1
-uw-songti-medium-r-normal-fantizi-20-200-75-75-c-200-big5.eten.3.10-1
-uw-songti-medium-r-normal-fantizi-24-240-75-75-c-240-big5.eten.3.10-1
If you don't have any Chinese fonts installed or just want more fonts, you may look into ftp.ifcss.org:/pub/software/fonts/ where gb/bdf/ is for GB fonts, big5/bdf is for BIG5 fonts.

Installing X fonts

Suppose you get BIG5 font eb5-24k2.bdf.gz and GB font gb24st.bdf.gz. To build the fonts into .pcf format 

# gzip -cd eb5-24k2.bdf.gz | bdftopcf -t > eb5-24k2.pcf
# gzip -cd gb24st.bdf.gz | bdftopcf -t > gb24st.pcf
# compress *.pcf
Install the fonts into /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc 
# mv *.pcf.Z /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/
# cd /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc
# mkfontdir .
After installing the fonts, looking into the file fonts.dir, which now contains two lines 
eb5-24k2.pcf.Z -kc-kai-medium-r-normal-fantizi-24-240-75-75-c-240-big5.eten.3.10-1
gb24st.pcf.Z -isas-song ti-medium-r-normal--24-240-72-72-c-240-gb2312.1980-0
You may need to make aliases for these fonts, which will save you a lot of typing when bringing up Chinese software, add two lines to the file fonts.alias 
gb24st    "-isas-song ti-medium-r-normal--24-240-72-72-c-240-gb2312.1980-0"
taipeik24 "-kc-kai-medium-r-normal-fantizi-24-240-75-75-c-240-big5.eten.3.10-1"
Now inform your X window system server by 
# xset fp rehash
If everything goes well, you can use your new fonts now 
# cxterm -GB -fn 12x24 -fh gb24st &

5.2 HBF fonts

HBF fonts contain header files and bitmap font files. You need to get both header file and font files to install one HBF font. HBF fonts are in ftp.ifcss.org:/pub/software/fonts .

Suppose you want to use font ccfs24.hbf, a GB, FangSong, Jianti font, you should get three files ccfs24.hbf, cclib.n24 and ccsys.24. The file 00index.txt in the ifcss fonts directory gives you filenames of each HBF font.

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