luit -encoding gbk Segmentation Fault

chys — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 05:04:01 +0000

Chinese users have been encountering segmentation faults when they use luit with GBK in for a long time. (It worked perfectly in the good old days.) This is caused by a bug in X.

A simple workaround is as follows:

Open file /usr/share/fonts/encodings/encodings.dir and exchange the following two lines:

gbk-0 large/gbk-0.enc
gbk-0 large/gbk-0.enc.gz

For more details, refer to li2z’s post.
(I believe anybody interested in this problem should be able to read Chinese:) )

Yuking resumes FCITX development

Yuking resumes FCITX development

chys — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 18:29:00 +0000

Wonderful!

FCITX (Free Chinese Input Toy for X) was one of the two major Chinese input methods in Linux. Yuking mentioned in his recent post that he had just learned to use SVN. It was amazing he had created such a successful tool without using any version control system… (The source files contain approximately 30k lines)

The codes were criticized to be “amateur” – mainly based on his use of Chinese configuration files and Chinese comments (both in GBK, not UTF-8). These criticism directly caused Yuking to stop development last year. But I still have no idea why it is not reasonable to use Chinese character in a Chinese input method…