Using the Photon Chinese Supplement

This guide includes:

• Chinese fonts
• Chinese input method (cpim)

Chinese fonts

After installing the Photon Chinese Supplement, the following scalable Chinese fonts should be installed and ready to use on your system:

• Bitstream SB Gothic HK Uni (Traditional and Hong Kong)
• Bitstream SB Gothic SC Uni (Simplified GB2312-80)
• Bitstream SB Gothic TC Uni (Traditional Big5)

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The Photon Chinese Supplement provides Unicode fonts. Photon doesn't use code pages.

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Chinese input method (cpim)

The Photon Chinese Supplement includes an input method utility (cpim) that you can use to enter Chinese characters in Photon.

To run the cpim utility:

1. Open a pterm window and enter the following command:

   cpim &

   A small window appears:

   

2. Click the “?” button — this launches the Helpviewer with instructions on using the cpim utility.

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You may notice a Helpviewer error message in the pterm where you started cpim — please ignore the message.

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To enable and disable cpim, press Ctrl-Space.

If you want to control cpim from an application, start it with the -h option to suppress the graphical user interface. You'll need to use PtFepCmd() to control the FEP; see the Photon Library Reference.