Using Emacs on the Corpus server with Chinese characters
Connecting to Corpus with
PuTTY (and
WinAXE), you need to set
Window->Translation to UTF-8 and check the box
Treat CJK ambiguous characters as wide.
Your
.emacs file should contain the following to be able to view Chinese characters:
(set-language-environment "Chinese-GB")
(set-keyboard-coding-system 'utf-8)
(set-terminal-coding-system 'utf-8)
(set-buffer-file-coding-system 'utf-8)
(setq default-buffer-file-coding-system 'utf-8)
(set-default-coding-systems 'utf-8)
Now when you start Emacs, you can open files containing simplified Chinese characters and they should be visible normally. You can also check which character set work by trying M-x view-hello-file .
You can use Emacs inbuilt input methods to input Chinese characters.
M-x set-input-method
choosing chinese-py-punct you get an input method for inputting simplified Chinese one character at a time. (Which is in general not useful for writing anything more than a few characters)
After writing a few characters in Chinese, you can save the file and try to open it again. Should work.
Problems
At least two big problems exist:
Problem: The Windows Chinese IME don't work. Seems to be that Emacs rejects the input for unknown reasons. Maybe using some other editor might help?
Problem: Big5 characters (that is Taiwanese Mandarin and Cantonese mostly) don't work for some reason. Changing the language environment might help, but using the UTF-8 environment didn't seem to do the trick.
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JuhoTupakka - 2008-12-29