Solved how to let VT(4) display chinese and input chinese ?

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Dear all:
do you know how to let VT(4) display chinese and input chinese ? thanks.
please show me the step .i will fellow it.

 

[Kai Burghardt]

This has been asked before (Thread 57770). To display hanzi all you need to do is loading a font containing said characters → vidcontrol(1). Unfortunately the FreeBSD system is not shipped with any input method (yet). There is at least a proof of concept for an input method (Bopomofo).​

 

[fff2024g]

This has been asked before (Thread 57770). To display hanzi all you need to do is loading a font containing said characters → vidcontrol(1). Unfortunately the FreeBSD system is not shipped with any input method (yet). There is at least a proof of concept for an input method (Bopomofo).​

VT(4) has been support UTF-8 encoding, why this guy can' display chinese ? i have install NotoSerifCJKsc-Regular.otf in my /usr/local/share/fonts/noto/ folder. how can i load this font to VT(4) to display chinese. thanks.

 

[Charlie_]

A search on google found this font.
For input uim-fep in textproc/uim might work, but I don't know about input efficiency.

 

[T-Aoki]

A search on google found this font.
For input uim-fep in textproc/uim might work, but I don't know about input efficiency.

Not sure uim-fep works for Chinese. But when I tried at past, it worked for Japanese. Note that you cannot startx from within uim-fep.

And about font.
vt doesn't support TTF and/or OTF format. Just support the specific format of bitmap fonts. For example, Ed Maste's b16.fnt supports Japanese. Not sure it covers other CJK area, though. But I can read Japanese texts with, for example, misc/lv on vt console with b16.fnt.

Why bitmap font only?
Maybe because to work well with least-powered and memory-restricted single board computers. FreeBSD covers such a use-cases if the instruction set is supported. (There should be slow 64bit ARM / RISC-V boards with a few amount of memory, but cheap.)

 

[fff2024g]

A search on google found this font.
For input uim-fep in textproc/uim might work, but I don't know about input efficiency.

charlie:
i don't want to use wyq font. just need a global font , i can display english with chinese both. thanks.

 

[fff2024g]

在控制台下显示中文​

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1. 下载控制台中文字体，点击下载

2. 复制字体到指定目录
cp wqy.fnt /usr/share/vt/fonts/
3. 进行系统设置
sysrc font8x16="wqy"
echo 'hw.vga.textmode=0' >> /boot/loader.conf
echo 'kern.vty=vt' >> /boot/loader.conf
4. 重启系统
reboot
5. 验证
敲入 date 命令验证中文显示

dear all :
if we only can display chinese in VT(4), can't input chinese , that is not good for me . i will still work in english , thanks for all help. close this issue. thanks.

 

[scottro]

I have a page on Japanese (not Chinese), in Linux and FreeBSD. In some Linux distributions, though not in FreeBSD, you can do it with fbterm. For what it's worth, here are my notes on it.

Inputting Japanese in Linux and some BSDs

It was also written before fcitx5, I don't know if there's an fcitx5 version of it.

 

[T-Aoki]

Not tried (and a page in Japanese) though, this page has a link to GNU Unifont based font, possibly support 1byte+CJK. Not sure about its coverage.
Look for a link named unifont-8.0.01.fnt in the page.

 

[fff2024g]

communicate with all people with english is good , we can rise people's dream to Galaxy as fast as we want....