CX11: A Chinese language supporting interface for X window environment
CX11: A Chinese Language Supporting Interface for X Window Environment

HChinese language deals with ideographic character input and output. TheX Window System (X11R5 or earlier versions) has the mechanism to outputHanzi (Chinese ideograph) through 2-byte encoding when the correspondingfolits are included, but it has no corresponding input feature. Because thereare as many as 16000 most in use Hanzis, more than one keystroke is needed toinput a single Hanzi by the traditional English keyboard. This paper proposesa Hanzi input architecture on the X Window System and a Chinese languagemechanism that can upgrade English-based commercial X products or supplyan appIication (X clients) programming interface for inputting Hanzi. CX11,our first implementation, is running on SCO ODT. Its design principle andimplementation should be a model and can be applied as one of the generalapproaches to inteInationalize and localize the X Window System.