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This is interesting. miniChinput is a package that Redhat has on both rawhide, and in their SRPMS distribution, so you would have assumed that it is free. Which it is... But the font upon which the miniChinput depends on is _NOT_ free. Check ttf-zhfonts-xxx.rpm and you will notice that zysong.ttf is only licensed to Redhat, but the src.rpm file is still distributed freely by redhat, so I'm not putting zysong's ebuild here, but I'm sure if you are already reading this, will know how to get a copy of zysong installed and chinese running on your machine. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce:
Created an attachment (id=12480) [details] miniChinput-0.0.3.ebuild Note that this installs, but you have 2 methods to get it running. a. You grab a copy zysong.ttf from redhat's mirrors and install it manually. b. You edit the Chinput.ad file to use the arphic fonts instead. If you make a request, maybe I'll include a patch that patches Chinput.ad to do that already.
It looks like the HOMEPAGE is invalid. This one looks like the right page: http://www-scf.usc.edu/~bozhang/miniChinput/ and it has the tarball as well so you don't need any ugly rpm extracting hacks to get at it. the font issue is interesting indeed. does minichinput actually depend on that actual font or can it use any other chinese ttf font? i notice the other fonts in the ttffont_zh*.rpm are from arphic which we have a package for. would it be possible for you to modify your ebuild to use the tarball from that URL above instead of getting the SRPM from rawhide? and also include seperately the patches that redhat puts in? thanks
Sure... I can do that... But I will not be able to do it immediately. Am currently rushing a project. Actually, I've tried it and got it working for the arphic fonts gentoo has. So I'll try to change the configuration a bit.
Bad bad... It looks like quite some effort will be required to make the miniChinput work like the one from the src.rpm file. I'll give this a lower priority for now. Back to my project. Ciao ST Lim
i've discovered that there are other unicode fonts we can use instead of the zysong font. i will also email the Zhong Yi to ask if they can allow gentoo to distribute the font :/
Created an attachment (id=15410) [details] minichinput-0.1.9.ebuild version bump.
thanks for your initial report. minichinput 0.1.9 is now in portage.
