Re: Debian default font for Chinese display is not complete

Dear Fred,

We use Sim Sun.  I think that it is one of the default fonts.

Depending upon the input and the version of OOo, you may have to 
manually select the Chinese font before you type.

The font is important if you exchange documents with others using MSW. 
Sim Sun seems to work well in both.

We used to use Chinput, but now use SCIM for input.

Regards, Graham Brown


Frederic Muller wrote:
> thanks for the answer. I did find a replacement font that displays 
> Chinese well.. though it does not answer my question as what is 
> installed/used by default and how I find out about it. Actually I kind 
> of prefer that default font (uncomplete though). Any idea how I can find 
> out which one it is?
> 
> I'll give a try to the WenQuanYi anyway.
> 
> Fred
> 
> nEO (a.k.a. gentoo.cn) wrote:
> 
>> Try WenQuanYi fonts
>> http://wqy.sf.net
>> It's a GPLed Chinese fonts
>>
>> 2006/1/16, Frederic Muller <fred-GQxX53Lv/[email protected]>:
>>  
>>
>>> Hi guys!
>>>
>>> I am currently using Debian in English but also need to display (and
>>> type eventually) Chinese. I followed some Internet resource to do that
>>> and it works almost well. The default font used by the system to do that
>>> is missing some Chinese characters. From all my KDE font settings it
>>> says it is Bitstream Vera, though after checking with Font viewer
>>> Bitsream Vera seems to have no Chinese character at all.
>>>
>>> So I have in fact a few font related questions:
>>> - how do I find out which font is really being used?
>>> - How do you guys handle the problem?
>>>
>>> - How in open office when opening documents written on wndows do you get
>>> the right font selection to display all the Chinese characters without
>>> having to do a Select all - replace?
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>> Fred
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