CX11: A Chinese Language Supporting Interface for X Window Environment

Chinese language deals with ideographic character input and output.The X windows System (X11R5 or earlier versions) has the mechanism to output Hanzi(chinese ideograph) through 2-byte encoding when the corresponding fonts are included,but it has no corresponding input feature.Because there are as many as 160000 most in use Hanzis,more than one keystroke is needed to input a single hanzi by the traditional English keyboard.This paper proposes a Hanzi input architecture on the X Window System and a Chinese language mechanism that can upgrade English-based commercial X products of supply an application (X clients) programming interface for inputting Hanzi.XC11,our first implementation,is running on SCO ODT.Its design principle and implementation should be a model and can be applied as one of the general approaches to internationalize and localize the X Window System.

CX11: A Chinese language supporting interface for X window environment

HChinese language deals with ideographic character input and output. TheX Window System (X11R5 or earlier versions) has the mechanism to outputHanzi (Chinese ideograph) through 2-byte encoding when the correspondingfolits are included, but it has no corresponding input feature. Because thereare as many as 16000 most in use Hanzis, more than one keystroke is needed toinput a single Hanzi by the traditional English keyboard. This paper proposesa Hanzi input architecture on the X Window System and a Chinese languagemechanism that can upgrade English-based commercial X products or supplyan appIication (X clients) programming interface for inputting Hanzi. CX11,our first implementation, is running on SCO ODT. Its design principle andimplementation should be a model and can be applied as one of the generalapproaches to inteInationalize and localize the X Window System.