Chinese fonts for your browser

If your web browser does not display Chinese characters or pinyin correctly, then the first thing to try is using the installation disc(s) for your operating system (MS-Windows or Mac OS), to add support for Chinese (or Asian) text. This should work for all the versions of MS-Windows and Mac OS X that are supported by Wenlin.

Wenlin 4 includes a good font for pinyin, named Gentium. Look inside the Fonts folder that is inside the Wenlin4 folder (which is normally in the Program Files folder for MS-Windows, or the Applications folder for Mac OS), for Gentium and instructions for installing it. Gentium is also available for download from http://scripts.sil.org/gentium.

You may also follow this link to find and install Chinese fonts.

The following links may have helpful information on how to enable support for East Asian characters (Wenlin Institute is not responsible for these websites):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Multilingual_support_(East_Asian)

http://newton.uor.edu/Departments%26Programs/AsianStudiesDept/Language/asianlanguageinstallation_XP.html

To see Chinese text in your web browser you might also need to make some locale-specific settings in your operating system or browser preferences.

For example, in Mac OS X, you might get Japanese display (Kanji) of Chinese characters by default, using Japanese fonts rather than Chinese fonts. If you see rather than here门(between the finger pointers) then your system has that problem.

To control this behavior (in Mac OS X): in System Preferences: Language & Text: Language, move 簡體中文 (Simple form Chinese, a.k.a. Modern/PRC) and 繁體中文 (Full form Chinese, a.k.a. Traditional/ROC) higher in the list than 日本語 (Japanese). This will cause Chinese CJK fonts to be used before Japanese. (If you see Korean or Vietnamese in the list, make sure that Chinese is higher in the list than both of those too.)

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