This is the seventh Alpha release of DBCS support for x3270. It is for debug and integration purposes only. How to Run x3270 in DBCS Mode ----------------------------- DBCS is an attribute of your locale and the host character set you select. Your locale is defined by the LC_CTYPE or LC_ALL environment variable, and determines the character set and encoding for interactions with the Input Method, as well as other workstation I/O (cut/paste, screen printing, scripting). The x3270 host character set may be selected from the command line, or from the Options->Character set menu option. For example, Simplified Chinese is selected via the option '-charset simplified-chinese'. In order to get multi-byte input, you must run an X Input Method (e.g., xcin, kinput2). The input method name can be automatically derived from the locale, or can be specified by the XMODIFIERS environment variable or by the '-im' command-line option. You must also specify the local encoding method, which for various reasons cannot be automatically detected from the locale. This is specified with the '-km' command-line option, and is an ICU converter name or alias (e.g., 'EUC-CN' or 'EUC-JP'). The preedit type used by the input method can be specified by the '-pt' option, which takes the values 'Root' or 'OverTheSpot'. The vertical offset of the preedit window for 'OverTheSpot' can be modified by adding a suffix to 'OverTheSpot', e.g., '-pt OverTheSpot+2' will cause the preedit window to appear two lines below the cursor. The default preedit type is 'OverTheSpot+1'. Languages and Code Pages Supported ---------------------------------- Charset Name Code Pages X11 Charsets ------------------ ------------------------ ------------------------- simplified-chinese 836 (SBCS), 837 (DBCS) gb2312.1980-0, iso10646-1 japanese 1027 (SBCS), 300 (DBCS) jisx201.1976-0+jisx0208.1983-0, iso10646-1 Known Limitations ----------------- - pr3287 does not support DBCS character sets. - Flipped mode does not work, and is disabled.