Simplified Chinese Fonts

Simplified Chinese Solaris software provides Song-style fonts, with Simplified Chinese characters in accord with the GB2312-80 standard.

Bitmap Simplified Chinese fonts are provided, located under the /usr/openwin/lib/locale/zh/X11/fonts directory. The fontedit utility enables users to edit bitmap fonts.

Simplified Chinese Solaris provides TrueType scalable fonts in the following type faces:

• Hei

• Kai

• Song

• Fangsong

You can use X Font Displayer (xfd) to view a Simplified Chinese font, for example:

system% xfd -fn song-medium14

The xfd(1) man page provides more information.

All Simplified Chinese fonts have XLFD font names, and you can use the xlsfonts utility to display these names as follows, for example:

system% xlsfonts | grep gb2312