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Lai Yu-Hsuan
Asked: 2012-09-18 12:33:41 +0800 CST

install Chinese(and other utf-8) fonts for Xvfb?

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I have installed these packages:

apt-get install xvfb xfonts-base xfonts-75dpi xfonts-100dpi firefox

But in my Firefox in Xvfb on Ubuntu Server, the Chinese characters look like:

screenshot

How to install proper fonts for my Xvfb?

EDIT: I have also installed xfonts-intl-chinese but it doesn't help.

chinese

2 Answers

  1. Solved!

    You need xfonts-wqy as well. (it's a open-source Chinese font)

    sudo apt-get install xfonts-wqy

    enter image description here

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  2. On a Ubuntu server installation, I installed a bunch of font packages to solve my problem. It is the complete list, I do not know which one really fixed it, but xfonts-wqy did not only fix it for some use-cases on my system. 

    fonts-dejavu-core
fonts-dejavu-extra
fonts-droid-fallback
fonts-guru
fonts-guru-extra
fonts-horai-umefont
fonts-kacst
fonts-kacst-one
fonts-khmeros-core
fonts-lao
fonts-liberation
fonts-lklug-sinhala
fonts-lohit-guru
fonts-nanum
fonts-noto-cjk
fonts-opensymbol
fonts-roboto
fonts-roboto-hinted
fonts-sil-abyssinica
fonts-sil-padauk
fonts-stix
fonts-symbola
fonts-takao-pgothic
fonts-thai-tlwg
fonts-tibetan-machine
fonts-tlwg-garuda
fonts-tlwg-kinnari
fonts-tlwg-laksaman
fonts-tlwg-loma
fonts-tlwg-mono
fonts-tlwg-norasi
fonts-tlwg-purisa
fonts-tlwg-sawasdee
fonts-tlwg-typewriter
fonts-tlwg-typist
fonts-tlwg-typo
fonts-tlwg-umpush
fonts-tlwg-waree
fonts-unfonts-core
fonts-wqy-microhe
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