Fonts howto

1. Chinese
• Install Chinese language support using windows update and three Chinese fonts will be installed on your system, MS Song an MS Hei for simplified Chinese and MingLiu for traditional Chinese (windows 95/98/98Se/Me)
  For Windows 2000/XP you have to follow an other procedure : Windows XP / Windows 2000
• When installing or updating Microsoft Word : choose setup - customize - office tools - international setup - and select X X. This will provide you with two Chinese fonts, SimSun for simplified Chinese and PmingLiu for traditional Chinese
• Together with your favorite FEP
• web : check Luc Devroye's Chinese Fonts page for a massive amount of links to Chinese fonts.
• linux : check my linux page for packages that contain Chinese fonts


2. Unicode
• There are two good Unicode fonts available, one from Microsoft (Arial Unicode MS : local) and the other one by Bitstream (netscape ftp - local).
  Arial Unicode MS is included with all versions of Microsoft Office 2000 Service Release 1 (SR-1). It's also included in alle the XP-versions of Microsoft software.
  Arial Unicode MS is 23 MB large, this is because it contains all glyphs of the unicode range (version 3.0). Most recent fonts are also made for unicode but they contain only the glyphs for several ranges, that is way unicode fonts come is several sizes (quality also plays a role ofcourse).
• Chinese Unicode fonts for debian
• web : check Unicode fonts for Windows computers

(more info on unicode)


3. Pinyin
• There are several pinyin available. Some work with a special key combination, other work by putting a number after the letter which you want to be 'toned' (i.e. a2 for the second tone on a).
• You can use unicode fonts to insert pinyin, see pinyin howto for more information
• web : check The Fools' Workshop for online available pinyin-fonts.

(more info on pinyin)