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Subject: Re: displaying Chinese radicals
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Lingyis <victor DOT kam AT gmail DOT com> writes:
> cygwin xterm or rxvt does a good job when it comes to displaying Chinese
> characters, but it doesn't have fonts for all the Chinese radicals.  maybe
> half of them show up as "SQUARES".  the ones that do show up i can tell
> cygwin did some substitutions--i.e. dug up other fonts when current font
> doesn't have this glyph.

Since you're on Windows, try running a ssh daemon and log into your
Cygwin using PuTTY. (Or heck, properly secured telnet.)

In PuTTY you can easily configure the font and character encoding.
It does a good job with Asian characters.

I just confirmed that I can see radicals in PuTTY

(Method: go to 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radical_%28Chinese_character%29,
and cut and paste random radicals from the table into my PuTTY window.
The ones I sampled all showed up fine. The font is just Courier,
on Windows XP. "Translation" is set to "UTF-8". This is in the 
settings
under "Window".)

(But my putty is connected to a Linux system, not to Cygwin:
that's something for you to try. :)


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