Browse Web in Chinese (Big5) under X-Window
by using Netscape

Netscape 3.0x

You can use Netscape 3.0x to browse information in Chinese (Big5) on Web under X-Window environment.

If you use 'cxterm', you can just use Chinese fonts that you had already installed for it to work with Netscape. But you need to do some font alias mapping to make Netscape be able to find these fonts.

The basic idea is that Netscape try to find fontnames end with 

    big5-0
    big5.et-0
    big5.et.ext-0
    big5.etext-0
    big5.hku-0
    big5.hku-1
    big5.pc-0
After you start up your X Window, you can check whether your environment confirm to this or not by following command: 

    xlsfonts | grep big5

Basic steps

Detail steps to set it up

1. Get the Netscape for your platform from Netscape's FTP server.
I think everyone should know how.
2. Get 'taipei*.bdf' fonts and install it.
You can use 'archie -s taipei24' to find out which FTP server carry it.
or you can connect to here to get following files: 
     taipei16.bdf
     taipei24.bdf
     taipei24k.bdf
     taipeil24.bdf
The original site carry it is ftp://ifcss.org/pub/software/fonts/big5/bdf

If you are the system adminstrator, you can install these fonts to the system font directory. You can find out the fonts path of your system by

   xset q

If you are just a user of that Unix system, you can install fonts in your home directory as followed: 
   # in your home directory
   mkdir xfonts
   cd xfonts
   # move fonts to this directory.
   # create or update 'fonts.dir' by
   mkfontdir .
The content of 'fonts.dir' in this directory should have following lines:

    taipei16.bdf taipei16
    taipei24.bdf taipei24
    taipeik24.bdf taipeik24
    taipeil24.bdf taipeil24
Please add following mapping into your 'fonts.alias' file:

-taipei-ming16-medium-r-normal-*-16-160-*-*-*-*-big5-0 taipei16
-taipei-ming-medium-r-normal-*-24-240-*-*-*-*-big5-0 taipei24
-taipei-kai-medium-r-normal-*-24-240-*-*-*-*-big5-0 taipeik24
-taipei-li-medium-r-normal-*-24-240-*-*-*-*-big5-0 taipeil24
Then add this new font directory into your font path by 
    xset fp+ $HOME/xfonts
You can check whether the font is installed successfully or not by 
    xlsfonts | grep big5
3. Setup the Netscape
Run Netscape
Select "Options/General.../Fonts" and
Set "For the Encoding" as "Taiwanese (x-x-big5)".
Set "Use the Proportional Font" as "Ming(Taipei)", and remember to click "Size:" as "24.0", even though it's the only choice.
Set "Use the Fixed Font" same as proportional font.
Set "Options -> Language Encoding" as "Chinese (Big5)".

4. That's all. Enjoy the Web surfing in Chinese !
Test it with our Home Page in Chinese.
It's better to put 'setenv' for XAPPLRESDIR in your '.cshrc' file and 'xset fp+' command in your '.xinitrc' file.
If you are using X-Window environment other than above, please refer to "0.README" file come with "taipei16.bdf" for setting up the Chinese font.
Or read "xfonts-readme" here.
If you are not satisfy with the typeface of these fonts, you can get more in ftp://ftp.tku.edu.tw/linux/tku-collect/X-window/cxterm-fonts
by Chin-Tang Chang, Computing Center, Academia Sinica.
中央研究院 計算中心, 張錦堂 編寫
March 7,1996 1