recently i face with the difficulties on how to display the chinese character??
b4 that, i used to convert chinese character to utf-8 code to enabe that computer can read the input data..
but there have no display of chinese character as my expected output...wat is the exact problem?

The chinese charater that suppose to be displayed is like that "李大伟"(chinese char) for "\xE6\x9D\x8E"(utf-8 code)

Is it GUI_Font16_1HK a proportional font that used to display the chinese character?
but i found that it will have compile error which is the GUI_Font16_1HK is undefined...
How to be sure that GUI_Font16_1HK is defined properly while i have defined it in GUI.h already??



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#include "GUI.h"

static const char * _apStrings[] = {
"Chinese:",
"\xE6\x9D\x8E",

};


void MainTask(void) {
int i;
GUI_Init();
GUI_SetFont(&GUI_Font16_1HK);
GUI_UC_SetEncodeUTF8();
for (i = 0; i < GUI_COUNTOF(_apStrings); i++) {
GUI_DispString(_apStrings[i]);
GUI_DispNextLine();
}
while(1) {
GUI_Delay(500);
}
}

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This post has been edited by goolie: Jul 20 2007, 05:41 PM

Maybe the font required 16 bit encoding, try utf-16

Refering the http://www.micrium.com/products/gui/fonts.html

So, I guess that is not the font for it.

(Sorry for hijacking this post.)

It is the same for BIOS setup screen, to display Chinese character as 8x16 (or even 8x8) rectangle bitmap font.

Unlike in Windows, there is no Unicode character set there, I guess Lenovo engineering team have to draw each ideogram one by one. As you can see, the Chinese font is ugly and not even in size but still recognizable.

wow 16 year old thread

I guess it make sense that this is an old thread and lots of folks didn't go through the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ETen_Chinese_System era.

Didn't remember what we used last time, but it's hooked TSR on top of DOS, using 2 bytes encoding per char. This is before unicode and the fun fun Big5 vs GB stuff.

Lots of fun discovering characters that wasn't handled by the encoding and have to use substitutes. Or dealing with fake characters that never existed at all. Ugh.

Related: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6688636...embedded-system

This post has been edited by angch: Sep 10 2022, 10:48 AM

Yeah, ETen, but I use Chinese Star (not an OS anyway) at that time. I remember the GB and Big5 as well, hah.

I looked into the SO link you gave, I think the embedded system might have limited memory to fit all Chinese characters (such as my Arduino board only comes with 32KB flash, 2KB sram, and 1KB eeprom), that's why there was one comment there:



It is the same with the BIOS screen I uploaded yesterday, as I think it just comes with necessary glyphs for the provided text, not with the entire Chinese character set. BIOS has limited memory too?

i always recommend read hardware spec and documentation.
especially if work closely with hardware.

BIOS - Wikipedia

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/BIOS