Add Chinese support? about installer

[condor2]

yes, but need someone to translate in chinese

[deadhead420]

Yes, are you able to translate?
On Jun 29, 2016 3:43 PM, "condor2" [email protected] wrote:

yes, but need someone to translate in chinese

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[efreeking]

I can do the translation. I will do it later.

[deadhead420]

Lol! Check the wiki! There aren't any AUR helpers in the arch repos....
Also to search packages use 'pacman -Ss'...

If you want to install yaourt there are two ways. 1. Install it from the
AUR with makepkg like it is meant to be. If you don't know how to use
makepkg you shouldn't be using the AUR at all. 2. Add the arch linux French
unofficial repos and install it with pacman.
On Jul 12, 2016 10:51 PM, "phil" [email protected] wrote:

Hi Dylan

I used Arch Anywhere, and everything worked perfectly. I'll admit I did
want to use the manual installer but couldn't as it kept returning nothing
but I/O errors, but I did unplug all other disks from my machine and do the
auto install on a disk. Other than that, everything worked perfectly, and
this worked out to be much better.

But one problem, and I don't know if you can help or not. I don't know if
it's an issue with the repo mirrors, or if it's an Arch Anywhere issue. I
can't install any repo helper for the AUR at all. sudo pacman -S (tried
yaourt, yaourt-GUI, packaur, octopi, pamac and several others so far)
returns either nothing at all or "package not found". Every single other
package installs fine.

[deadhead420]

Although I urge you to learn makepkg here is the easy way.

Edit the file(as root/sudo): /etc/pacman.conf

All the way at the bottom add 3 lines:

[archlinuxfr]
Server = http://repo.archlinux.fr/$arch
SigLevel = Never

Save the file and exit
This will add the unofficial French repos to your pacman conf allowing you
to install packages from the French repo. This means you can install yaourt
or other aur helpers using pacman..

Next simply run:

sudo pacman -Sy yaourt

However like I said this is the total noob way and I urge you to use
makepkg because its super easy and the arch way.
On Jul 13, 2016 6:28 AM, "Dylan Schacht" [email protected] wrote:

Lol! Check the wiki! There aren't any AUR helpers in the arch repos....
Also to search packages use 'pacman -Ss'...

If you want to install yaourt there are two ways. 1. Install it from the
AUR with makepkg like it is meant to be. If you don't know how to use
makepkg you shouldn't be using the AUR at all. 2. Add the arch linux French
unofficial repos and install it with pacman.
On Jul 12, 2016 10:51 PM, "phil" [email protected] wrote:

Hi Dylan

I used Arch Anywhere, and everything worked perfectly. I'll admit I did
want to use the manual installer but couldn't as it kept returning nothing
but I/O errors, but I did unplug all other disks from my machine and do the
auto install on a disk. Other than that, everything worked perfectly, and
this worked out to be much better.

But one problem, and I don't know if you can help or not. I don't know if
it's an issue with the repo mirrors, or if it's an Arch Anywhere issue. I
can't install any repo helper for the AUR at all. sudo pacman -S (tried
yaourt, yaourt-GUI, packaur, octopi, pamac and several others so far)
returns either nothing at all or "package not found". Every single other
package installs fine.

[efreeking]

I had used the arch-linux-anywhere to make the arch-anywhere-2.2.3.iso, and tested it in the VirtualBox, but I found that the Chinese words appear as black squares if I use the Chinese ui.
I think that because the wrong locale and miss of the Chinese font.
Wait for your improve!

[condor2]

The script isn`t updated for chinese :)

[faddat]

So what I was going to say was that actually all of the versions of Arch Linux anywhere should probably include cjk font support. When I install right now I begin with just plain boxes where there should be Chinese letters and Chinese letters are much better than just plain boxes.

[deadhead420]

Working on it... Trying to figure it out.... It seems the framebuffer doesn't support Chinese characters. Need to figure out a work around to support Chinese fonts... If anyone has any input on how this can be done (without using xorg) let me know.

[faddat]

I think it is possible. Sadly I am not in possession of more info on this
than this hunch :).

On Aug 7, 2016 1:34 PM, "deadhead" [email protected] wrote:

Working on it... Trying to figure it out.... It seems the framebuffer
doesn't support Chinese characters. Need to figure out a work around to
support Chinese fonts... If anyone has any input on how this can be done
(without using xorg) let me know.

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[deadhead420]

Well its not pretty but I've finally figured out. After banging my head over this for the past month I've finally figured out how to get chinese characters to display in console only. I've managed to get fbterm working and am playing around with the fonts to get something which looks good. Not to say I won't run into anymore issues because its highly likely. But for now I have chinese characters working correctly in fbterm.

[deadhead420]

Still working on this but its turned out to be much harder than I thought. I've got fbterm working in a vbox system however not on the ISO. Turns out the default archiso kernel does not have support for framebuffer devices.... SO. fbterm will not work no matter what I do. Thinking I should ditch the archiso entirely and start fresh creating my own ISO with my own kernel.

[michaelmyc]

I believe I can help with the translation. How can I get involved?

[deadhead420]

@tydlwav That would be great... The problem I'm having is the Chinese characters are not being displayed correctly in the framebuffer. So what needs to be done is figuring out how to get the characters to display in the framebuffer. I know this can be done by getting fbterm to work but I was unable to get it working on the ISO... If you want to give it a shot you can download the latest arch-anywhere.iso from arch-anywhere.org

The chinese translation can be found at /usr/share/arch-anywhere/lang/arch-installer-chinese.conf
As you can see in this photo The characters are not displayed and are instead replaced with boxes:
http://imgur.com/a/gtpDP

What needs to be figured out is how to get them to display on the iso...

[deadhead420]

I spent hours trying to get this to work to no avail.

[michaelmyc]

From my experience, this might be a problem of the Chinese fonts used(not using equal width fonts). It might be because we are using the wrong encoding. I am not sure. I would need to investigate into it further. I guess if we could get tty to output Chinese, we could get the script to do the same.

[deadhead420]

Yeah thats all it boils down to really. If tty can output Chinese it will work in the script too. I know that the problem is the fonts but no matter what I do I can't find a font which works.

[deadhead420]

Also I've been able to get Chinese to display in the tty through fbterm on a fresh arch install. However no matter what I do I can't get fbterm to work on the archiso

[michaelmyc]

Did you try changing the locale into something like zh_CN.UTF8?

[deadhead420]

Yep. I generate the locale for every language when creating the ISO and the locale is set at the top of each translation file. I know its the font I just can't find a working font.

[michaelmyc]

Hmm. I'll look for one that may work. Did you try the wqy-zenhei fonts?

[deadhead420]

I'm pretty sure I did yes. But it has been awhile so I should probably mess around with it again

[deadhead420]

This might sound a bit dumb lol but I have no clue which setfont command to run to apply the chinese font

[deadhead420]

for example... Normally to set a font I would run:

setfont ter-v16n

[deadhead420]

Nevermind. Now I remember why it wont work. I don't think wqy-zenhei is a console font. In order to get it working I would need xorg or fbterm

[deadhead420]

As far as I know there are no console fonts which display Chinese.

[michaelmyc]

I'm still setting up my Arch. I'll try some tutorials in Chinese and see if they work.

[michaelmyc]

Sadly that would be a few days later. School's pretty intense.

[deadhead420]

No worries. I'm working on it now but it has proven to be very tricky.

[deadhead420]

FINALLY I think I finally figured this shit out after hours of banging my head..... Turns out I needed uvesafb drivers to get fbterm working. I've already got this added into the ISO

[deadhead420]

Now I have fbterm working but of course its always a problem. Now no matter what I do I can't get my custom colors for the installer to work......

[deadhead420]

Fuck fbterm.... I'm done trying. It works but its literally impossible to change the framebuffer color scheme. I've been searching google for hours, I've even gone as far as the 5th page of results on google. Fbterm is a piece of shit, I've wasted way too much time on it. It works, but I won't be able to have my custom color sheme so it isn't even worth it for me. The only thing I can think of from here to get Chinese working would be another framebuffer terminal emulator which supports the escape sequence codes for my color scheme, or using xorg server which I would rather not do because it will add 150+MB to the ISO.

[michaelmyc]

That's a shame. I'm glad you can get the fonts working, though. Chinese has always been a fuss. I remember using wine with Chinese software and everything comes up as unreadable blocks. Chinese support is probably the only reason for me to not ditch Windows completely.

[faddat]

Chinese support for any OS tends to be lacking. These days I find linux approximately as good as windows. Can I help you get your machine set up? [email protected] oh, and if you live in china/ read a lot of Chinese/ keep in touch with a lot of Chinese people, QQ could be something missing from Linux. I hate that. oh, and @deadhead420, @crypto-hippie says hi. Oh, and we are putting your arch distro on a router. And selling it at router.dawn-project.com. :),. Jacob Gadikian E-mail: [email protected] SKYPE: faddat Phone/SMS: [phone]

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[michaelmyc]

Thanks for the offering, but the only problem now is that my high school's Internet need logging in, and I live in the dorm without access to wired Internet. I find it frustrating to get the Internet working through the install, so I'm waiting till I get back home in the weekend.

[deadhead420]

I think I found a work around but its very hackish... I'm going to make it so fbterm will only run if chinese is selected and it won't have the color theme I use with all other languages. This will allow me to support chinese without sacrificing my custom color scheme

[deadhead420]

Giving up on this for now... Have wasted way too much time trying to get this to work. My brain is fried from it.

[erazemk]

Closing since this issue is really outdated and there doesn't seem to be any progress in translating.