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• On 2020/1/11, published cxterm-5.3.0 source code to gitee.com: https://gitee.com/xucs007/cxterm

• In 2010, Ubuntu becomes popular. For Ubuntu 10.4, here is a compiled cxterm cxterm-5.2.3_ubuntu_10.4.tgz (just enter cxterm folder, run "make install" to install it, under root). Ubuntu may not have zh_CN locale setup. Then you need login as root, add one line "zh_CN GB2312" to file: /var/lib/locales/supported.d/local , then run command "locale-gen --purge" .

  Under Ubuntu 10.4, cvi/celvis also works fine under cxterm (vi doesn't, unlike Mandriva 2007). Download compiled cvi/celvis: celvis-1.3.1_ubuntu_10.4.tgz.

• On Mandriva 2007, please install cxterm-unix98, and add "LC_CTYPE=zh_CN" in your cxterm script if you are using GB (add other similar LC_CTYPE if you are using BIG5, Korean, or Japanese), or you may get weird output.

  Also recommend the "fcitx" to input Chinese in konsole, eva-qq, kmail, mozilla, evolution, gimp etc. KDE/GNOME programs, and OpenOffice. One file of $HOME/.i18n (with one line "LANG=zh_CN.UTF-8" in it) will make a very nice Chinese KDE/GNOME ("GTK_IM_MODULE=xim" should also be added in the .i18n for fctix to work with GNOME programs). Eva-QQ, bittorrent, stardict in Mandriva 2007 are also very good tools. Ekiga/GnomeMeeting in it seems like skype for VoIP PC-To-Phone function, even added with video camera / video conference support.

          

  OpenOffice also prints out Chinese nicely in True Type Fonts.

• Hin-Tak's unix98 fork rpm packages works great on Mandrake 10.1, plug-n-play ! Unix98 fork is due to Linux's kernel changes on handling pseudo terminals.

  BTW, LumaQQ is a nice OICQ/QQ program, base on Java, cross platform, said to be writen by a guru from China TsingHua university, works great on Mandrake 10.1. And SCIM, miniChinput, fcitx can be used to input Chinese under Mozilla/Galeon/LumaQQ, tested under WindowMaker on Mandrake 10.1.

• Current cvs: GB WuBi Method corrections.

• cxterm-5.2.3 released on 5/6/03 by Hin-Tak Leung, a lot of fixes by him. RPM packages available now.

• 2 notes:
  

  • Especially for those who use PinYin methods, the functions of "Previous/Next 10 Options" were changed from "</>" to "-/+" by some developers who made 5.1, probably for compatible with Chinese Windows, or just for easy to input ",/." .
  • Solaris users: To compile 5.2.2, it will be easier if you already got GNU autoconf/automake installed. I've done it successfully on our schools's SunOS 5.8 (Sparc) by the following steps: Replace all "ncurses" to "curses" in the "configure.in" file, add " -lX11" in the line beginning with "LIBS=" in the same file, then do every step as on Linux except using "gmake" in stead of "make".

• cxterm-5.2.2 released on Dec/6/2001. Escape key fix for GB Chinese to ease vi/vim; F3-popup size fix.

• cxterm-5.2.1 released on Nov/28/2001. ScrollBar fix after introducing autoconf.

• cxterm-5.2 released on Nov/27/2001. Autoconf replaced Imake. Changed/removed/added quite some configuration files, so I upgraded the version number from 5.1 to 5.2 . Now the installation is the standard way:

      ./configure [--prefix=...]
      make
      make install
      [make install-fonts]

• cxterm-5.1p2 released on Nov/14/2001. Input-key cross checking added. Set up this homepage and cvs repository on sourceforge.net. Based on Heng Yuan's cxterm-5.1p1-2.src.rpm.

  Run the config.sh to compile and/or install. It's fast on my Linux Mandrake 8.1 of PIII 1GHz cpu, taking about 30 seconds to 1 minute to do it all. (SourceForge's CVS won't accept symbolic links, so I have moved previous scripts/config.sh to root directory.)

  Input-key Cross Checking: Double-hit of a F# key will show you the input-keys in F# method of the last CJK character you just input. --- For GB Chinese, WuBi method is much faster to input than PinYin (Pronunciation), but also much faster to forget than PinYin, so key-cross-checking really helps for WuBi-men.

  For GB-Chinese, you can also use F4 (Toned PinYin) to look for pronunciations of certain complicated Chinese characters which you can possibly input with WuBi. English meanings of limited amount of Chinese characters can be found with F8 (English-Chinese method). If you apply for VISA to go study abroad at foreign embassies, they may need the TELEGRAM code of your Chinese names, Shift-F10 can help you you again.

  The last character in "Everybody Good" (means "Hello, Everyone" in English) is "Good". Double-hit of F4 shows the 2 pronunciations as "hao3"(adj., means "good") and "hao4"(verb, means "addict")

  Double-hit of F7 shows the WuBi method key of "Good" as:"vb" or "vbg". "Good" has 2 parts: left means "woman" -- letter v in WuBi, right means "child" -- letter b in WuBi, letter g in WuBi is to denote this character is left-right structure and last stroke is a horizontal bar. When a man has both woman and child, it is called "Good", and he will "Addict" to his family ever since, :-)

  So far cross-checking only applys for single character's interpretation, no phrases.

  There are many separate programs that can do cross checking, but it's more convenient to do it just in cxterm, :-)

CXTERM is a famous localized x-terminal for Chinese/Japanese/Korean (CJK). Since I couldn't find any CXTERM homepages, I (Changsen Xu) started this site on Nov/13/2001 (thanks for sourceforge.net). Partially because I'm unhappy to see that cxterm got few improvements after 1995, partially due to I'm eager to publish my first patch to cxterm.

Previous authors/contributors of cxterm are (not necessary complete, details are in Doc/README and ChangeLog):

• CXTERM 5.1p1-2 1999 BY HENG YUAN <[email protected]>
• CXTERM 5.1p1 1999 BY ZHUANG Hao <[email protected]>
• CXTERM 5.?p? 1996-1997 BY Ji-Tzay Yang and Bruce Cheng, color patches
• CXTERM 5.0 (C) 1995 BY YONGGUANG ZHANG <[email protected]> <[email protected]> (both email addresses are outdated)
• X11R6 CXTERM (C) 1994 BY YONGGUANG ZHANG.
• X11R5 CXTERM (C) 1991 BY YONGGUANG ZHANG AND MAN-CHI PONG.
• X11R4 CXTERM (C) 1990 BY MAN-CHI PONG AND YONGGUANG ZHANG.

The following people are the current maintainers:

• Changsen Xu <xucs at sourceforge.net>
• Heng Yuan <coconut at sourceforge.net>
• Hin-Tak Leung

None of us could devote much time to maintain this site and package. Interested people are more than welcome to join or send patches.