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Localization/Chinese

This article describes how to set up a Chinese language environment.

Fonts

  • adobe source han fonts
  • noto Chinese fonts
  • wqy fonts
    • - WenQuanYi Micro Hei font family (also known as Hei, Gothic or Dotum) is a sans-serif style derived from Droid Sans Fallback, it offers high quality CJK outline font and it is extremely compact (~5M).
    • wqy-zenhei - Hei Ti Style (sans-serif) Chinese Outline font embedded with bitmapped Song Ti (also supporting Japanese (partial) and Korean characters).
    • - Bitmapped Song Ti (serif) Chinese font.
  • arphic fonts
    • - Kaiti (brush stroke) Unicode font (enabling anti-aliasing is suggested)
    • - Mingti (printed) Unicode font
  • opendesktop-fonts - New Sung font, previously is ttf-fireflysung package
  • - Chinese and Vietnamese ttf fonts
  • Standard fonts of Traditional Chinese
    • - Kai and Song traditional Chinese font from the Ministry of Education of Taiwan
    • Chinese TrueType fonts by Ministry of Education of Taiwan government, supporting CNS11643 standard, including Kai and Sung fontface.
  • Windows Chinese fonts
    • ttf-ms-win8-zh_cnAUR - windows8 simple Chinese fonts.
    • - windows8 traditional Chinese fonts.
    • - windows10 simple Chinese fonts.
    • - windows10 traditional Chinese fonts.
  • - CJK serif font that emphasis on an old-style typeface.

Input methods

The following input method (IM) engines are available for Chinese:


EngineFcitx5FcitxIBusUimScimNimf
Rimefcitx-rimebuilt-in
Pinyinbuilt-inscim-pinyinAURbuilt-in
Zhuyinbuilt-in
Cangjie
Sucheng
SmartCangjie
fcitx-table-extra
Wubibuilt-inbuilt-inbuilt-in
Libpinyin
SunPinyinfcitx-sunpinyin
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