Internationalization (Using Japanese, Korean, etc.)

Additional informations about this may available at http://t-sato.in.coocan.jp/xfig/. Send any questions or comments about this internationalization facility to VEF00200@nifty.com (T.Sato).

Although they are not included in the official release of xfig at this time, it may possible to use some other languages such as Greek (ISO-8859-4), Hebrew (ISO-8859-8), Thai (ISO-8859-11), Cyrillic (ru_RU.KOI8), etc. See "Xfig and non-ASCII Characters" at http://t-sato.in.coocan.jp/xfig/ about this topic.

• Environment
• Installation
  • Install xfig
  • Install fig2dev
• Startup
• Entering Text
• Customization
  • Changing Display Fonts
  • Changing Fonts on PostScript Output
  • Setting Resources
• Notes
• Tested Environments

Environment

• Library and X Server of X11R5 or X11R6.
  (They must be appropriately internationalized and they must be possible to connect to the input method. Use of X11R6 is recommended.)

• Appropriate conversion server (Canna or Wnn, for example), and an input method (kinput2 or htt, for example). These facilities may be implemented as a single program.

• Fonts for the language (jiskan16 for Japanese, for example)

Installation

Install xfig

1. Get xfig.3.2.3d.full.tar.gz and gunzip and untar it.

2. Uncomment ``#define I18N'' in xfig.3.2.3d/Imakefile (remove the XCOMM comment).

3. If your C library supports the required locale, remove -DSETLOCALE from the definition of I18N_DEFS in the Imakefile. If your C library doesn't support the required locale, make sure that -DSETLOCALE is specified.

4. Compile and install xfig in the usual way.

Install fig2dev

1. Get transfig.3.2.3d.tar.gz and gunzip and untar it.

2. Uncomment ``#define I18N'' in transfig.3.2.3d/fig2dev/Imakefile (remove the XCOMM comment).

3. If you want to install files like japanese.ps to a directory other than /usr/local/lib/fig2dev, modify the definition of FIG2DEV_LIBDIR and I18N_DEV_DEFS in the Imakefile.

4. Compile and install TransFig (fig2dev) in the usual way.

Startup

1. Set the locale name for the language to be used (such as ja_JP.eucJP or ko_KR.eucKR, for example) to the environment variable LANG.

2. If it is necessary, set the environment variable XMODIFIERS to specify the input method to be used.

3. Make sure that the appropriate conversion server (Canna or Wnn, for example) and an input method (kinput2 or htt, for example) is available.

4. Type ``xfig -international''.

   Without the -international option, xfig will work as normal (no internationalization). If you put ``Fig.international: true'' into your resource file, -international option may omitted.

Entering Text

Input of international text will be started by typing a key to switch the input mode when it is ready to input text from the keyboard in TEXT mode. It depend on the environment as to which key will switch the input mode, but keys such as Shift-SPACE, Control-SPACE, Control-O, or Control-\ may be used in many cases. Operations for conversion also depend on the environment, but will be the same as other applications which use the environment.

The input style may be selected from Off the Spot, Over the Spot, and Root. The input style to be used may be selected with the inputStyle resource or the -inputStyle option. For example, xfig -international -inputStyle OverTheSpot will select Over the Spot as the input style.

Off the Spot:

The text under conversion will be displayed at the bottom of the canvas.

Over the Spot:

The text under conversion will be displayed at the position where it will end up. But the display may be somewhat strange because it will be displayed with a different font. Also, it may lead to somewhat unusual behavior, or the display on the canvas may get confused.

Root:

The text under conversion will displayed in a separate window.

Customization

Changing Display Fonts

    Fig.normalFontSet: -*-times-medium-r-normal--16-*-*-*-*-*-*-*,\
	 -*-*-medium-r-normal--16-*-*-*-*-*-*-*,\
	 -*-*-*-r-*--16-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
    Fig.boldFontSet: -*-times-bold-r-normal--16-*-*-*-*-*-*-*,\
	 -*-*-bold-r-normal--16-*-*-*-*-*-*-*,\
	 -*-*-*-r-*--16-*-*-*-*-*-*-*

With this default specification, non-desirable fonts may loaded (bad appearance of texts or long delay when starting of xfig may caused as the result, for example) on some systems. In such case, you may need to specify those fonts more definitive in the resource file (app-defaults/Fig) and force the system to load the specified font:

    Fig*FontSet: -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--14-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
    Fig.normalFontSet: -*-times-medium-r-normal--14-*-*-*-*-*-*-*,\
        -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--14-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
    Fig.boldFontSet: -*-times-bold-r-normal--14-*-*-*-*-*-*-*,\
        -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--14-*-*-*-*-*-*-*

If scalable fonts are available (when X server which support scalable fonts like X-TrueType Server is in use, for example) appearance of text may improved by specifying large fonts, as:

    Fig*FontSet: -*-times-medium-r-normal--16-*-*-*-*-*-*-*,\
        -foobar-mincho-medium-r-normal--16-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
    Fig.normalFontSet: -*-times-medium-r-normal--64-*-*-*-*-*-*-*,\
        -foobar-mincho-medium-r-normal--64-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
    Fig.boldFontSet: -*-times-bold-r-normal--64-*-*-*-*-*-*-*,\
        -foobar-gothic-medium-r-normal--64-*-*-*-*-*-*-*

Changing Fonts on PostScript Output

Japanese

Locale name can one of japanese, ja, ja_JP, ja_JP.ujis, ja_JP.eucJP and ja_JP.EUC.

Korean

Locale name can one of korean, ko, ko_KR, ko_KR.eucKR and ko_KR.EUC.

Another Languages

The file must installed into the directory specified when fig2dev is installed. The filename must locale name followed by ``.ps''. For example, if locale name is zh_CN.eucCN, the filename must zh_CN.eucCN.ps.

Setting Resources

In the default configuration of X11R6, if there is a resource file like /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale/app-defaults/Fig (here, locale is locale name or its ``language part''), it will be loaded instead of /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/Fig. Therefore, if you wrote setting for Japanese environment in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/ja/app-defaults/Fig, the setting for Japanese environment will be used when environment variable LANG is set to ja_JP.eucJP or so, and default setting in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/Fig will be used otherwise.

Notes

• When entering international text, you must select ``Times-Roman'' or ``Times-Bold'' (may be displayed as ``Times-Roman + Mincho'' and ``Times-Bold + Gothic'' in Japanese environment) as the TEXT FONT. If any other font is selected, Latin-1 characters will be available as in normal xfig.

• It is not possible to edit international text in the Edit Panel. But it is possible to edit text on the canvas in TEXT mode.

• When specifying international resource, you should specify as ``Fig.international: true'' but not ``Fig*international: true''.

• Use EUC for encoding of multi-byte text. You may need to set locale (environment variable LANG) appropriately for your system. On some systems, japanese may select non-EUC encoding.

• In Japanese environments, text may include only ASCII and JIS-X-0208 characters. If the environment supports it, it may be possible to enter characters of JIS-X-0201 kana characters or JIS-X-0212 (supplement kanji), but fig2dev will not accept those characters.

• Regrettably, making xfig 3.2.X's Japanese entering feature available may difficult on many X11R5 systems. It is known to work on Japanese Solaris 2's OpenWindows and Solaris CDE, but unknown about another X11R5-based systems.

Tested Environments

Japanese

* On IRIX 6.3, you may need to compile xfig with IRIX's genuine cc (not with gcc), specifying compile option -N32 -mips3. Also, you may need to get source of JPEG library and compile it yourself, to avoid using JPEG library distributed with IRIX.

Korean

SEE ALSO:

Hangul and Internet in Korea FAQ
Hangul and Printing