Thus if I have three JPG images in a directory named:
FSMHSusNM131_N2.jpg
FSMusNM131_G8.jpg
FSMHSusNM132_N5.jpg
(and I do,) then I can select any one of these using at most two keypresses and two arrowkeys.
I just had a go at Nautilus, and surprise, typing-the-first-few-letters-to-select works. Selecting using arrow keys works, but strangely only for up-down arrows. But scrolling to the selection doesn't work yet, which is annoying, but I'm sure it will get fixed.
# give me gedit in Traditional Chinese LANG=zh_TW.Big5 gedit &
# give me gedit in Simplified Chinese LANG=zh_CN.GB2312-1980 gedit & ----------
This works on my system (Debian potato), totally untested on others.
As for Unicode, well... it doesn't yet include all the characters in Traditional Chinese and Simplified Chinese, therefore it can't yet totally replace character sets like Big5 yet.
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It's in active use around the Greater China area, and I'm using it to operate one myself.
I just had a go at Nautilus, and surprise, typing-the-first-few-letters-to-select works. Selecting using arrow keys works, but strangely only for up-down arrows. But scrolling to the selection doesn't work yet, which is annoying, but I'm sure it will get fixed.
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#!/bin/sh
# give me gedit in Traditional Chinese
LANG=zh_TW.Big5 gedit &
# give me gedit in Simplified Chinese
LANG=zh_CN.GB2312-1980 gedit &
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This works on my system (Debian potato), totally untested on others.
As for Unicode, well... it doesn't yet include all the characters in Traditional Chinese and Simplified Chinese, therefore it can't yet totally replace character sets like Big5 yet.