Adding New Chinese Fonts In kubuntu

Submitted by xwings
on August 1, 2005 - 8:38pm

Title : Adding New Chinese Fonts In kubuntu
O/S : Linux
Distro : Kubuntu
Version : 5.04

To Enable Chinese Display in KDE :

$sudo apt-get install kde-i18n-zhcn

Locale Settings :

LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE=zh_CN.UTF-8
LC_NUMERIC=en_US.UTF-8
LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8
LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8
LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8
LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8
LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8
LC_NAME=en_US.UTF-8
LC_ADDRESS=en_US.UTF-8
LC_TELEPHONE=en_US.UTF-8
LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8
LC_IDENTIFICATION=en_US.UTF-8
LC_ALL=

Add in new Fonts :

# wget http://www.xwings.net/public/kubuntu
# mv VeraSansYuanTi /usr/share/fonts/
# fc-cache -f

Restart X
Set all fonts to VeraSansYuanTi, with Anti Aliasing

To have same font size for both KDE and GNOME ,

$ echo 'Xft.dpi: 96' > ~/.Xresources 

For Chinese Input, Install fcitx.
URL : http://www.fcitx.org

still better localization needed

albcamus
on
August 2, 2005 - 7:20pm

For example,support traditional chinese input in GB_XX charset, a large library , etc.

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