View information in Chinese (Big5) on Web under X-Window environment

Mosaic-L10N

This method is kind of old.
Use Netscape instead.

There is a Multi-Localization Enhancement of NCSA Mosaic for X 2.4 that makes use of various national character sets.

Currently supported character sets are for Czech, Cyrillic, Greek, Hebrew, Turkish, Chinese, Korean, Japanese and more...

The latest version of Multi-Localized Mosaic is Mosaic-L10N (2.4.0) based on NCSA Mosaic for X 2.4.

The original information of this software is stored at http://www.ntt.jp/Mosaic-l10n/README.html.
There is copy of Mosaic-L10N information is stored at our server, but some of links may not work.

Get the software

Please get the Multi-Localized X-Mosaic - Mosaic-*-l10n-*.
Mirror of Mosaic-l10n sites: Academia Sinica's FTP Server
ftp://ftp.sinica.edu.tw/www/Clients/Mosaic-l10n
Remember to get the Chinese fonts in "xfonts" directory.; NCTUCCCA FTP Server
ftp://ftp.edu.tw/Chinese/ifcss/software/x-win/www; CSIE, NCTU FTP Server - ftp.csie.nctu.edu.tw
ftp://ftp.csie.nctu.edu.tw/pub2/WWW/xmosaic-l10n/

Installation

For example, if you plan to use the software in HP-UX, then

1. Get following files: 
    
    Mosaic-2.4-l10n-0.hp.gz
    app-defaults.color.gz
    taipei16.bdf.gz
    taipei24.bdf.gz
    taipeik24.bdf.gz
    taipeil24.bdf.gz
    taipeim24.bdf.gz


2. Uncompress all the files by
    gunzip *.gz
3.  mkdir $HOME/xfonts
    mv *.bdf $HOME/xfonts
4. Convert the format of font files for X11R5
    cd xfonts
    bdftopcf -t taipei16.bdf > taipei16.pcf
    # convert all other font files by same way.


   If you use Sun Open Window 2.0 or 3.0 or
   you are running X11/NeWS window system server ("xnews"):

        % uncompress *.bdf.Z
        % convertfont 8x18.bdf
        % convertfont -M -n taipei16 -o taipei16 taipei.bdf
        % bldfamily

        (Note: ignore the error messages by "bldfamily", them won't hurt.)


5. Create "fonts.dir" file.
    mkfontdir

6. Map font to a new font name by creating "fonts.alias" file.
   The content of the file may be look like following:

    taipei16-big5.et-0 taipei16
    taipei24-big5.et-0 taipei24
    taipeik24-big5.et-0 taipeik24
    taipeil24-big5.et-0 taipeil24
    taipeim24-big5.et-0 taipeim24

7. Set the font path for your X Server by
    xset fp+ xfonts/

   Add following command in your $HOME/.xinitrc file.
    xset fp+ xfonts/
     
8. Append app-defaults.color file to your $HOME/.Xdefaults file.
    cat app-defaults.color >> $HOME/.Xdefaults

9. Fix some of setting in .Xdefaults

    Mosaic*defaultCharset:  eten

   Change all lines with "big5" to the correct font name. Such as
   From

        -*-*-medium-r-normal-*-15-*-*-*-*-*-big5*-*,\
 
   To
        taipeik24-big5.et-0

10. Restart your X Server or use following command to take
    .Xdefaults setting effect now:

     xrdb -merge $HOME/.Xdefaults

    You can check your fonts path by 
     xset -q

    You can list all the font available by
     xlsfonts

    You can display a font file by
     xfd -fn fontname

    Such as,
     xfd -fn taipei24-big5.et-0

If you are using X-Window environment other than above, please refer to "0.README" file come with "taipei16.bdf" for setting up the Chinese font.
Or read "xfonts-readme" here.

Run it

If you set the following setting in your .Xdefaults

Mosaic*defaultCharset: eten

then you just start up Mosaic-L10N by executing

Mosaic-2.4-l10n-0.hp

By service@sinica.edu.tw
Computing Center, Academia Sinica
Dec. 10, 1994