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simplified chinese


you can check whether you have some simplified chinese fonts in the commonly used legacy encoding gb2312 available to your x-server with:

     ~$ xlsfonts |grep gb2312 

a few simplified chinese bitmap fonts are already part of xfree86.rpm. therefore, almost all systems with x installed already have some simplified chinese fonts and the output of the above xlsfonts command should at least contain:

 -isas-song ti-medium-r-normal--16-160-72-72-c-160-gb2312.1980-0 -isas-song ti-medium-r-normal--24-240-72-72-c-240-gb2312.1980-0 -isas-fangsong ti-medium-r-normal--16-160-72-72-c-160-gb2312.1980-0 

2005-03-09