Discussion:
Chinese console fonts?
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Zach Uram
2008-08-15 11:30:20 UTC
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I downloaded a chinese webpage onto my remote server using wget (where
I host my webserver - running Debian 4.0) and when I view it the
Chinese haracters have been replaced with ASCII gibberish. Yet the
original Chinese page displays fine in Firefox on my local machine
(Ubuntu 6.06) and I can even see the Chinese characters in my console
in Ubuntu when I load the file in emacs. So what packages do I need to
install in Debian etch which will alow me view (and thus correctly
download and save) Chinese webpages? I do not want X fonts since the
server is only accessible via ssh and I don't run X on it.

Zach
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Osamu Aoki
2008-08-15 12:40:13 UTC
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Post by Zach Uram
I downloaded a chinese webpage onto my remote server using wget (where
I host my webserver - running Debian 4.0) and when I view it the
Chinese haracters have been replaced with ASCII gibberish. Yet the
original Chinese page displays fine in Firefox on my local machine
(Ubuntu 6.06) and I can even see the Chinese characters in my console
in Ubuntu when I load the file in emacs. So what packages do I need to
install in Debian etch which will alow me view (and thus correctly
download and save) Chinese webpages? I do not want X fonts since the
server is only accessible via ssh and I don't run X on it.
It can be done with framebuffer consoles. The only time I have seen
people using framebuffer consoles are debian-installer in Asian
languages. (fbiterm, jfbterm, zhcon)

Quite honestly, your time is better spent to set up simple X setup with
UTF-8 terminal and international fonts.

If you have special needs such as Braille for blind person, I do not
know the answer. (I do not even know how to convert text from normal
chinese to Braille friendly phonetic format.)

Osamu
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Osamu Aoki
2008-08-25 16:00:16 UTC
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Post by Zach Uram
I downloaded a chinese webpage onto my remote server using wget (where
I host my webserver - running Debian 4.0) and when I view it the
Chinese haracters have been replaced with ASCII gibberish. Yet the
original Chinese page displays fine in Firefox on my local machine
(Ubuntu 6.06) and I can even see the Chinese characters in my console
in Ubuntu when I load the file in emacs. So what packages do I need to
install in Debian etch which will alow me view (and thus correctly
download and save) Chinese webpages? I do not want X fonts since the
server is only accessible via ssh and I don't run X on it.
It can be done with framebuffer consoles. The only time I have seen
people using framebuffer consoles are debian-installer in Asian
languages. (fbiterm, jfbterm, zhcon)

Quite honestly, your time is better spent to set up simple X setup with
UTF-8 terminal and international fonts.

If you have special needs such as Braille for blind person, I do not
know the answer. (I do not even know how to convert text from normal
chinese to Braille friendly phonetic format.)

Osamu
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