Hanzi DECterm is a VT382-C terminal emulator. This section describes the Chinese features which are specific to Hanzi DECterm. For the details about the common internationalization features provided by DECterm, please see DECwindows Motif Internationalization Guide.
This section describes the Hanzi DECterm in the following areas:
The terminal type that DECterm will emulate is sensitive to the session language.
To create a Hanzi DECterm through Session Manager, you can set the session language to one of the Hanzi locales, say Chinese China, and then select DECterm from the Applications menu of Session Manager.
The user interface language of Hanzi DECterm always follows the terminal type. The language is independent of the language selection.
You may apply to your Hanzi DECterm windows any of the customization features that are currently applicable to the ISO Latin-1 DECterm window except for the customization of the NRCS character sets.
Customized features can be saved and restored in the same way as in ISO Latin-1 DECterm.
Choosing Big Font or Little Font option from Window... of the Options menu will let you choose either the 24x24 or 16x18 Chinese fonts.
Choosing General... from the Options menu will allow you to change the general features, such as the terminal type, for the Hanzi DECterm from the dialog box displayed. Besides, you may also select the following information from the dialog box:
Choosing Input Method... from the Options menu will allow you to select the interaction style for Hanzi DECterm. For example, if you want to select the root window interaction style, you can click on the Root Window button and then apply the change. If you click on the ISO Latin-1 Input button, Hanzi DECterm will disable the input of Chinese data until another style is selected.
Choosing Input Method... from the Options menu also allows you to switch to use another input server for Hanzi DECterm. By default, the DECW$IM input server is used. To select another input server, you can click on the Other button and then enter the input server name in the input field.
You can choose the Edit menu to copy information within or between DECterm windows. The Cut-and-Paste operation is enhanced to handle mixed ASCII and Chinese characters.
Hanzi DECterm supports GB2312 and all character sets supported by the ISO Latin-1 DECterm.
ISO Latin-1 DECterm uses the DEC Multinational Character Set (MCS) as the default character set. This can be overridden by choosing other options in General... from the Options menu. For Hanzi DECterm, the default character set for 8-bit data is the Hanzi character set GB2312.
In general, Hanzi DECterm cannot display mixed MCS (or ISO Latin-1 Supplemental Graphic Characters) and Hanzi characters. If you really want to achieve this, you can output the data together with the designated character set escape sequences.
You can enter Chinese characters in Hanzi DECterm by invoking any of the Chinese input modes as described in Chapter 6. Mixed ASCII and Chinese characters can be displayed properly in Hanzi DECterm without any special settings.
The Hanzi input server provides the Chinese character input capability. If this process does not exist or terminates for some reasons, a message "Hanzi input method does not exist" will display. You can restart the input server again and then use the Reset Terminal option from the Commands menu to reconnect the Hanzi DECterm to the input server.
The following functionalities of VT382-C are implemented in the Hanzi DECterm terminal emulator:
For the details of the VT382-C functions, please refer to VT382-C Programming Reference Manual and VT382-C User's Manual.