Adobe Reader Asian Font Packs - Allows the display of Asian fonts in Adobe PDF files.

('emerge arphicfonts' to get characters showing in firefox!)

Gentoo Linux Chinese Localisation Guide.

Excellent guide to displaying Chinese characters for Windows, Mac and Linux.

of Washington guide to CJK internet/email/word processing for Windows and Mac Just make sure you are using a UTF-8 locale. in particular LaTeX CJK, and True Type among others. Linux supports Sinitic fonts in a number of formats.

Check 'Select next source in input menu'.

Click Keyboard & Text Input in the column.

To set up keyboard shortcuts for changing input language (Handwriting feature only available in Snow Leopard or above)

Tick Chinese Simplified, Pinyin and/or Trackpad Handwriting.

Click the Apple icon on top left corner.

If it doesn't work, refer to #Cross Platform. Mac OS (X) should support displaying Chinese characters natively.

Download this file and this one from Microsoft.

Do the same for Chinese (Traditional) - with Language Pack and then tcmondo.exe.

Download the file scmondo.exe, open it and follow the instructions.

Select Chinese (Simplified) - with Language Pack in the dropdown box.In order to display Chinese characters properly, you need to download two packages from Microsoft. Microsoft Windows installs the necessary files and prompts for you to restart the computer. Windows may not always ask for an installation CD. Insert a Windows XP installation CD or browse to the appropriate network location, and click OK. Another dialog box appears requesting a Windows XP installation disk or network share location where the language support files are located.Click OK when a dialog box appears informing you of the storage requirements for the language files (230 MB).On the Languages tab, select the checkbox labeled Install files for East Asian languages.Select the Date, Time, Regional and Language Options category, then click Regional and Language Options. If Chinese character't display properly for you, first check if you need to install East Asian language support files. Internet Explorer 7 in Windows Vista displays Chinese characters properly without any configuration.įor program written in non-Unicode, go to Control Panel -> Regional and Language Options -> Administrative tab -> Language for non-Unicode programs, set it to whatever Chinese language you want. Make it the default selection in your browser.Use right-click install on Windows, the Font Book in Mac OS, or the method provided by your desktop environment in Linux. If you have one, make it the default in your browser and check. Find somewhere to look at the font lists, and see if you can see something like Chinese characters. Make sure you have a Chinese font available.

Display chinese character in font style