Japanese Fonts

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Japanese TrueType fonts are described in the following table.

Table 5-2 Japanese Fonts

Full Family Name	Subfamily	Format	Style	Vendor	Character Set
IPAGothic	Regular	TrueType	Sans serif, fixed width	IPA	JIS X 0201:1976, JIS X 0213:2004
IPAPGothic	Regular	TrueType	Sans serif, proportional	IPA	JIS X 0201:1976, JIS X 0213:2004
IPAMincho	Regular	TrueType	Serif, fixed width	IPA	JIS X 0201:1976, JIS X 0213:2004
IPAPMincho	Regular	TrueType	Serif, proportional	IPA	JIS X 0201:1976, JIS X 0213:2004
Sun-Gothic	Regular, Bold	PCF(12,14,16,20,24)	Sans serif, fixed width	SCR	JIS X 0201:1976, JIS X 0208:1990
Sun-Minchou	Regular, Bold	PCF(16,20,24)	Serif, fixed	SCR	JIS X 0201:1976, JIS X 0208:1990

Japanese fonts are packaged as follows:

IPAGothic, IPAPGothic – system/font/truetype/ipafont
IPAMincho, IPAPMincho – system/font/truetype/ipafont-mincho
Sun-Gothic, Sun-Minchou – system/font/sun-ja-bitmap-unicode (Unicode indexed font) and system/font/sun-ja-bitmap (JIS indexed font)

Unicode indexed fonts are provided to use bitmap fonts in GTK applications. For example, to use bitmap fonts in a Japanese GNOME environment, install system/font/sun-ja-bitmap-unicode.

To use Japanese bitmap fonts used in the CDE environment in the previous release, install system/font/sun-ja-bitmap.