Simplified Chinese Font Sets

A Simplified Chinese font set is composed of one English font, representing codeset 0 (ASCII) characters in GB1988.1989-0 or ISO8859-1, and one Simplified Chinese font representing gb2312.1980-0 characters.

Simplified Chinese Solaris 8 provides some default font sets defined in application defaults files in /usr/dt/app-defaults/zh/*. The following is an excerpt from one of the files, Dtwm:

Dtwm*icon*fontList: \
    -dt-interface system-medium-r-normal-s*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*:

This portion of the file refers to a font set containing two fonts previously mentioned that are included in the zh locale.

-dt-interface system-medium-r-normal-s serif-14-120-75-75-p-60-gb1988.1989-0
-dt-interface system-medium-r-normal-s serif-14-120-75-75-p-120-gb2312.1980-0

The first is an English font for codeset 0 (ASCII) character font display. The second is a Simplified Chinese font for codeset 1 (GB2312.1980) character font display.

Note that these fonts are defined in the file /usr/openwin/lib/locale/zh/X11/fonts/75dpi/fonts.alias.

Starting Applications With a Specific Simplified Chinese Font Set

When you start an Asian Solaris tool at the command line, you can also specify its fonts. Below is an example of a command line argument used to start a Simplified Chinese Windows terminal with a specified font set:

system% dtterm -fn "-dt-interface system-medium-r-normal-s \  	
serif-14-120-75-75-p-60-gb1988.1989-0; \  	
-dt-interface system-medium-r-normal-s \  	
serif-14-120-75-75-p-120-gb2312.1980-0:"