Questions related to fonts or typefaces used for displaying text in Chinese.
Questions tagged [fonts]
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How to display CJK Extension H?
CJK Unified Ideographs Extension H has just been released this week.
BabelStone Han only has:
53.6%
coverage of CJK Ext. H.
HanaMin seems to have fallen off the face of the earth. They did not even release an update for CJK Ext. G.
Which fonts…
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(女 vs 女): Unicode points U+5973 vs U+F981
I wonder if this is even the right place to ask this question but I couldn't figure another place so here I am. What is the difference between these two characters? If none, then why are there two different unicode code points?
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How to display CJK Extension G?
Wikipedia has a page entitled CJK Unified Ideographs Extension G.
I've installed BabelStone's BabelHan but coverage isn't 100%:
Unicode Block | Total Coverage Characters | Percentage | G-Source Coverage Characters | Percentage
CJK Unified…
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Fonts for Unicode CJK extensions C, D, E
Does anyone know of a font that supports the unicode CJK extensions c, d, e? If you have such a font, do you know if it works with the MySQL utf8mb4 character set?
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What is the biggest font by percentage of CJK symbols already encoded?
Only the Unicode-included Unified and six extensions considered for the question (87887 symbols, 12 compatibility included).
Possible contenders:
BabelStone Han: includes all of original map and partially all the extensions.
Source/Noto: includes…
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How to set normal Chinese font in MS Power Point 2016?
In Ecxel I can set Calibri font and enter Chinese characters, which look straight. In PowerPoint I have Chinese characters set font as STXinwei (Body) and they look very "stylish":
I can't get "straight" font in PowerPoint and can't change font to…
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Ancient calligraphy and traditional fonts supporting most/all traditional/simplified glyphs that is Free for commercial use?
I would call the Google Noto Chinese fonts "modern" chinese. Then I would call something like this (that font doesn't load/work for me when I download it) a more ancient style calligraphy font. And something more traditional might be a basic serif…
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A good web font size for Chinese characters
Wikipedia has a pretty small font size for Chinese characters like 書. I would prefer if it were a little larger. Wondering if there is a sort of reference or ideal size for Chinese characters, similar to how a good estimate/range for Latin-based…
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