Traditional Chinese Fonts

Bitmap, scalable, and PostScript composite Traditional Chinese fonts are provided, located in the /usr/openwin/lib/locale/zh_TW/X11/fonts directory.

These bitmap fonts are in:

• /usr/openwin/lib/locale/zh_TW/X11/fonts/75dpi

• /usr/openwin/lib/locale/zh_TW.BIG5/X11/fonts/75dpi

The fontedit utility enables users to edit bitmap fonts.

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

• Hei

• Kai

• Ming

These scalable fonts are in: OPENWINHOME/lib/locale/zh_TW/X11/fonts/TrueType

Chinese PostScript composite fonts are in: /usr/openwin/lib/locale/zh_TW/X11/fonts/composite

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

system% xfd -fn ming-light14

The xfd(1) man page provides more information.

All Traditional Chinese fonts have XLFD font names, and you can use the xlsfonts utility to display these names as in the following example:

system% xlsfonts | grep sung
......
system% xlsfonts | grep kai