tlug: Displaying BMPString on Console using printf in C.

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull@example.com>]

>>>>> "Sanjay" == Sanjay Agnani <s.agnani@example.com> writes:

    Sanjay> How can I display a BMPstring having Japanese characters

Start by getting Ken Lunde's "Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and
Vietnamese Information Processing."  This is a lot harder than
colorizing your ASCII displays.  You obviously need a background text.

BTW, what is a "BMPstring"?

    Sanjay> on Console using a C program (on RedHat Linux 5.2 Japanese
    Sanjay> version and on

Strictly speaking, you can't.  The Linux console supports neither
multibyte characters nor wide characters (except Unicode, I think in
UTF-8, and that doesn't handle Japanese at all, just switching code
pages).  You have to run a separate program, kon2, on the console.

kon2 requires a separate font package, konfonts, I suspect in an
idiosyncratic format.

It probably has some problems; in particular, last I used it I think
it was dependent on the application to handle input; it just passed
keystrokes to the application.  It may have security issues, since it
needs to access the hardware to bypass the Linux console.

I don't know what encodings kon2 can display.  You may need to output
in EUC-JP, or it may accept 7-bit JIS with escape sequences.  SJIS and 
UTF-8 were not supported last time I used kon2, for sure.

    Sanjay> Sun-Solaris 2.6 machine) ?

Can't help with that.

    Sanjay> Also what do I have to do to write the BMPString to a Text
    Sanjay> File using a C program (on RedHat Linux 5.2 Japanese
    Sanjay> version and on Sun-Solaris 2.6 machine) ?

Depends on what the text file is, and how you plan to use it later.

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