由 高原之狼 » 週五 4月 18, 2003 2:19 pm
To moto: I think I misled you. All my test was done in Windows enviroment. When I said encoding, I meant the encoding of my web browser (I am using mozilla 1.4alpha by the way), not the locale in Linux.
Windows 2000 (Simplified Chinese version) actually has very good input method. I can choose either simplified characters or traditional characters, but both of them is in GB encoding. In fact this is GBK encoding (Windows codepage 936), which has all the simplified and traditional characters. I believe that if I change my default language to Traditional Chinese, I will be able to input all characters in Big5 encoding as well. (One thing I am not sure: Does Big5 encoding include simplified characters? Since in mainland, the encoding standard was GB2312, which includes simplified characters only; Later Windows extended it and made the GBK encoding, and became the de facto standard for Simplified Chinese. (Ironically, GBK encoding has never get the endorsement of mainland government. And the government now are enforcing a new standard -- GB18030. But I haven't seen any real application yet. And I think that standard is compatible to GBK, although I am not sure.)
In Linux the basic thing is like this: I can input traditional characters in zh_TW locale (using xcin), as well as simplified characters in zh_CN locale (using chinput), but I have never managed to input both in one locale. So inputing is really quite a headache. And that's is one of the main reasons I am still using Windows.
I'll try to test the simplified character input in Linux later. I remember that xcin has some way to input them, though I am not sure about its encoding.