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From: rick@hanauma.stanford.edu (Richard Ottolini)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re:  Chinese User Interface in X
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Date: 10 Jun 90 16:50:25 GMT
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>> 1) Does X11R4 have Chinese fonts? Please note that this is NOT the
>>    same as the Japanese Katakana characters.

I thought X11R4 had several GuoBiao fonts (mainland ordering, simplified).
There were no indexes or client software.
Apple computer uploaded a one syllable pinyin index to soc.culture.china
a few months ago.   A bdf font and pinyin index are in anonymous ftp 36.51.0.16.

Pinyin indexes are less satisfying to native users of Chinese than shape-based
indexes.  GuoBiao fonts are less satisfying to non-mainland Chinese.
Most of the computerized activity seems to be in the IBM PC world rather
than UNIX.