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One of the most comprehensive Unicode fonts for Windows is Microsoft's Arial Unicode MS. The Microsoft font Tahoma has support for both Traditional Chinese and Simplified Chinese characters. From there click on Text Services & Input Languades > Details… > Settings tab > Installed Services, Add…, 'Chinese (Taiwan)' and 'Chinese (PRC)'. Then enable support for both 'Traditional Chinese' and 'Simplified Chinese' input, by going to Settings > Control Panel > Regional & Language Options> Languages tab. To do this, go to Settings > Control Panel > Regional & Language Options > Languages tab > Supplemental Language Support and click on 'Install files for East Asian Languages'. The best way to enable support for Chinese and Unicode on Windows 2000 & XP is to select 'Install files for East Asian Languages'. Some interesting discussions on Unicode in general and Chinese Unicode in particular may be found on the Unicode & Chinese Font Resources page.īecause each operating system deals with fonts in different ways, recommended fonts for two of the most prevalent operating systems (Windows and Mac) are given below. Thus, any Unicode Chinese font will work for displaying these pages. Any pages on the THL site that contain Chinese text will be encoded in Unicode. The policy of THL is to use Unicode fonts, whenever possible, because Unicode provides a unique, unambiguated encoding for a majority of the world's languages. This is due to the fact that the Big5 and Guobiao had already developed a large user-base prior to the advent of Unicode.įor viewers interested in either viewing web-pages with Chinese text or for using Chinese on their personal computer, it is necessary to have an adequate Chinese font installed on one's computer. Yet, the legacy encodings still dominate Chinese computing.

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On the other hand, the latest world-wide standard, Unicode, has provided code pages for each separately so that a single font can contain both sets of characters. However, neither the Big5 nor the GB encoding scheme can handle both Traditional and Simplified Chinese characters. GB is usually used for Simplified Chinese that is the standard for mainland China.

Big5 is used mainly for Traditional Chinese characters and is widely used in Taiwan and Hong Kong. (As the Chinese characters are intimately related to the Japanese and Korean characters, the common character set for these three languages is often called CJK.) The two legacy encodings are Big5 and Guobiao (abbreviated GB). There are three major encodings for Chinese fonts, two legacy encodings and Unicode. THL Toolbox > Fonts & Related Issues > Chinese Fonts & Related Issues