Hey,

I installed Debian and select Chinese as the language. The
installation is for Debian sarge therefore I aptitude dist-upgrade the
box to debian etch by first upgrade the kernel to 2.6. I want to
debian system support Chinese show and input. In the /etc/locale.gen
I have zh_CN GB2312. After log in, the error and system prompt for
aptitude are becoming unreadable. Can any of you tell me how can I get
the system support chinese input and set the root user using English
and other normal users using Chinese for application (like mutt) menus
please? I'm not using X-window-server.

Thanks a lot in advance!
Blessings,
Rocky


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rocky wrote:
> Hey,
>
> I installed Debian and select Chinese as the language. The
> installation is for Debian sarge therefore I aptitude dist-upgrade the
> box to debian etch by first upgrade the kernel to 2.6. I want to
> debian system support Chinese show and input. In the /etc/locale.gen
> I have zh_CN GB2312. After log in, the error and system prompt for
> aptitude are becoming unreadable. Can any of you tell me how can I get
> the system support chinese input and set the root user using English
> and other normal users using Chinese for application (like mutt) menus
> please? I'm not using X-window-server.
>
> Thanks a lot in advance!
> Blessings,
> Rocky
>
>

It is estimated behavior, since standard command-line environment is not
supposed to support non-latin characters out-of-the-box. You may try
package "zhcon" which will provide a Chinese environment.

And, it is recommended to use UTF-8 environment for better multi-lingual
compatible environment, which is default since etch, and zhcon-0.2.5 or
later supports utf8 by parameter --utf8.


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rocky wrote:
> Hey,
>
> I installed Debian and select Chinese as the language. The
> installation is for Debian sarge therefore I aptitude dist-upgrade the
> box to debian etch by first upgrade the kernel to 2.6. I want to
> debian system support Chinese show and input. In the /etc/locale.gen
> I have zh_CN GB2312. After log in, the error and system prompt for
> aptitude are becoming unreadable. Can any of you tell me how can I get
> the system support chinese input and set the root user using English
> and other normal users using Chinese for application (like mutt) menus
> please? I'm not using X-window-server.
>
> Thanks a lot in advance!
> Blessings,
> Rocky
>
>

It is estimated behavior, since standard command-line environment is not
supposed to support non-latin characters out-of-the-box. You may try
package "zhcon" which will provide a Chinese environment.

And, it is recommended to use UTF-8 environment for better multi-lingual
compatible environment, which is default since etch, and zhcon-0.2.5 or
later supports utf8 by parameter --utf8.


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On Wed, 08 Aug 2007 03:19:17 +0000, rocky wrote:

> After log in, the error and system prompt for
> aptitude are becoming unreadable.

I think you need to fix this problem first, which is not Chinese related.
I suspect that it is only an tip of the iceberg, 'cause unless you know
Debian inside out, you'd better install from scratch instead of upgrading.

> Can any of you tell me how can I get
> the system support chinese input and set the root user using English and
> other normal users using Chinese for application (like mutt) menus
> please? I'm not using X-window-server.

This is unfortunately another convoluted issue. Search Chinese
(in Chinese) and Debian in Chinese google. You will find lots of good
articles. Post back specific problems if you experience any.

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