Re: [LINUX5250] Chinese or CJK support of TN5250

[Scott Klement <klemscot@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Please forgive me, I'm not familiar with how Chinese characters work in
5250.

Does Chinese require DBCS?  If so, that may be the problem.   The emulator
right now does not do DBCS.  At least, I believe that the ideographic
shift-in and shift-out characters have something to do with DBCS, and I
know that we're ignoring those. :)

I also see that we don't have any Chinese maps in transmaps.

So, it seems that we don't (yet) support Chinese in TN5250.  If you're
willing to write the code to add it, I'd be happy to add it to future
distributions.

Lp5250d uses the same character mapping support that tn5250 does.
However, you may be able to get it working by using Host Print
Transform, since in that case all of the character translation, etc, is
done by the AS/400 and sent as "transparent data" to the printer.

Good Luck!

On Tue, 30 Apr 2002, Fai wrote:

> Any one has experience of using TN5250 with Chinese?
> I tried to use TN5250 latest version to connect to an AS/400,
> I can type chinese character, but seems the character has changed
> after returning from the server, for example, when I type: §A¦n¶Ü
> it will return me: §A¦N¶Ü
> Also when I do some searching on the server and the result has
> chinese character, it will crash when the page with chinese is being
> load. How can I check what's wrong with this?
>
> And how about Chinese printing (or CJK) using lp5250d?