Thread: Asian Language Support (Korean, Japanese, Chinese)
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2006-10-24 , 02:59
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Originally Posted by Drewvt
Very cool. I'm going to try to apply this as soon as I install Xterm.

I see that you use a font called sazanami-gothic.ttf. Is this the best font available for linux? For my purposes (studying Japanese in college) the more legible the font is, the better..(legible as opposed to a pretty or highly stylized font...)
Yeah, you can use any true type font, but perhaps if you wanna stick with san serifs (usually refered to as gothic fonts in Japan), it might help you read with more legibility as you stated. I just picked sazanami, because it was the only san-serif font available on my linux box (I have a very bare bones linux set-up), and all my japanese fonts on my mac were non true type fonts.

good luck with your Japanese studies!