Useful tips and stuff that matters » font http://www.theusefulblog.com Tips and tricks and stuff that matters for computers, internet, and many others. Thu, 26 Nov 2009 08:13:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 Make Ubuntu Dapper to display Chinese well in two minutes http://www.theusefulblog.com/post/make-ubuntu-dapper-to-display-chinese-well-in-two/ http://www.theusefulblog.com/post/make-ubuntu-dapper-to-display-chinese-well-in-two/#comments Fri, 25 Aug 2006 14:16:00 +0000 angelchen1111 http://www.tipspedia.info/2006/08/25/make-ubuntu-dapper-to-display-chinese-well-in-two/ With Ubuntu Dapper you can make Linux to display Chinese fonts (or maybe for other languages as well) much much easier than before. After you read this you’ll find out to make Linux to display Chinese well can be as simple as this.

  1. Get the font Simsun.ttc from Windows or some other high quality Chinese fonts and put them in the folder /usr/share/fonts/truetype.
  2. Update the font cache by runing “sudo fc-cache -fv”.
  3. Last and not least run the command “sudo fontconfig-voodoo -f -s zh_CN” and you are done! restart X and check it out.

Here are some screenshots for the effects:

You can even see bold, italic, bold+italic fonts:

Firefox browsing Yahoo China:

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