Re: Chinese in current ConTeXt

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

Tobias Burnus wrote:

> Hello,
>
> some remarks/errors of the current UTF-8 Chinese support in ConTeXt 
> 2005.12.19:
> (For (a) to (c) see also attached file.)
>
> a) unic-chi.tex: This contains the unicode vectors for which a Chinese 
> font will be used; currently it only covers
> \dostepwiserecurse{40}{159}{1}{\defineunicodecommand #1 {\uchar}}
> but this it misses the U+FFxx characters (fullwidth latin characters, 
> e.g. '?' which is as wide as a Chinese character)
> => solution: Add
> \defineunicodecommand 255 {\uchar}
>
> b) Labels: lang-chi.tex contains:
> \setuplabeltext [\s!cn] [\v!figure={\cnencoding\cnencodedfigure}]
> \startencoding[uni-c]
> \definecommand cnencodedfigure {\uchar{86}{254}}
> but if I use (with UTF-8) \placefigure{}{} the figure character is not 
> shown; however if I setup this directly, i.e.
> \setuplabeltext[cn][figure={\uchar{86}{254}}]
> , the character is shown just fine.


was this du eto the uni-c c-uni mixup?

>
> c) Doing font switching using \SimKaiTi seems to convert back to GBK, 
> can we have Unicode by default (at least when UTF-8 encoding is used)?

we need to come up with a better setup for this, just make me the 
definitions and i'll see how they will fit in ...

>
> Examples for (a) to (c) see attachment (UTF-8 encoded).
>
>
> Wish for the native speakers: Please translate
> - Graphics/Illustration and Intermezzo(s)
>
> Question to native speakers:
> - \c!date={\v!month,\ ,\v!day,{,\ },\v!year},
> Is this really the default? Or should this be
> year年month月day日?
>
> * * *
>
> Another questions:
> a) How to typset from top-to-bottom right-to-left using column(sets)?

hm, columnsets ... just make them small enough; should work ok 
(including graphic spans)

> b) How to change the numberformat used?

eh ... wang lei should know ... i have to look into it (chinese supports 
multiple number formats)

Hans