The Chinese HOWTO: Using Chinese in Console -- Chdrv and WZCE

9. Using Chinese in Console -- Chdrv and WZCE

Chdrv is a Chinese Terminal Simulator.It can display Chinese without X-Windows. It bases on VGALIB, and a VGA or super VGA monitor is required. It supports BIG5 coding only, but you can view GB files by using hztty

9.1 Getting chdrv

chdrvbin-1.0.7.tar.gz      sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/util/nls
                           ftp.ifcss.org:/pub/software/linux/tty
chdrvfont.tar.gz (HBF)     ftp.ifcss.org:/pub/software/linux/tty

9.2 Installing chdrv

Unpack the binary distribution package


# tar -xvzf chdrvbin-1.0.7.tar.gz
# mv chdrvfont.tar.gz chdrv-1.0.7/
# cd chdrv-1.0.7

Read the install instruction file INSTALL.1.0. Edit the script file installbin. If you are using shadow password for your system, you also need to edit the file chinese.conf, uncomment the line

LOGINPROGRAM /bin/telnet

and comment out the line

LOGINPROGRAM /bin/login

Now you are ready to go


# ./installbin

9.3 GB Chinese Console - WZCE

Wei Zhong Chinese Environment is a software package support Chinese information processing on PC UNIX's VGA console virtual screens.

Where is it

wzce_linux_elf_2.21n.tgz    ftp.ifcss.org:/pub/software/linux/tty

Installing

Read wzce_linux.readme