How to correct display Chinese?
KenteJohn opened this issue · 19 comments
I get some "?" characters when I write a sentense in Chinese. I have tried almost all the fonts, but it didn't work. I hope to get your response as soon as possible，thank you.
Hi, try selecting a font at https://fonts.google.com/?subset=chinese-simplified - that should give you a quite broad range.
If you find something suitable, I may be able to add it to https://github.com/phax/ph-fonts to have it available in a more suitable way.
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Thank you for your help, but due to some policy reasons, I can't visit google.com in China. Everything in your project fits me but fonts, I need Chinese support very much and don't want to give it up.
Maybe 'Noto Sans HK' can work?
Hi. It only has "Noto Sans SC":
If you like, you can paste an example text here and I send you the screenshot.
My bad. I also found the "Noto Sans HK"
Glyphs of Noto Sans HK:
Is that what you are looking for?
Wow, 'Noto Sans SC' is ok.
Just for comparison, these are the glyphs of "Noto Sans SC":
HK is complex font, SC is simplified font. I want the simplified font.
Maybe 'SC' is simplified Chinese, I guess.
Yes exactly. There is also a version "TC" for "Traditional Chinese"
So, I can use this font at some point in the future, maybe after a few days or months?
Yes, I am just trying it out in https://github.com/phax/ph-fonts - if it works, I will release 4.1.2 and create an example in here.
Is this is a reasonable test text:
他们所有的设备和仪器彷佛都是有生命的。
???
Yes and thank you for your support.
Unfortunately it doesn't work. pdfbox has problems with the OTF font. Any conversion tool from OTF to TTF I tried so far failed :(
I believe you can resolve this problem. 加油!
So I found a solution.
Please see the attached PDF examples.
Do they look good for you?
I can not see them. The hyperlinks are invalid. Could you give me the directory path about your output?
oh, I get the path: pdf/pltext/font-noto-sans-sc.pdf.
Thank you.