
#Chinese fonts for mac for mac#
I am in no way affiliated with this group - I just think the website is an excellent reference for Mac users. In the Preferences : Show All : Authoring and Proofing Tools selections, uncheck "Draft Fonts"įinally, here is the URL for a website that I consulted a lot when I was first starting to enter Chinese on my Macintosh. Answer (1 of 2): For one thing graphic design and that kind of fine attention to graphical detail, layout, and typeface hasnt yet picked up all over Asia - youll see plenty more agonising eyesores than Comic Sans, including distorted aspect ratios, complete disregard for white space and other. There is one preference you want to make sure is UNCHECKED. In my Office Preferences, I don't really see anything that suggests a special setup for displaying East Asian languages. There is also a complete collection of Korean, Japanese, Arabic, Hebrew, Sanskrit, and Cyrillic fonts installed as well. Brahmi Braille Breath of the Wild Builder Caps Centauri Chappe Chappe 2 Chinese Code Chocolate Note. Here is the ordered list of Chinese related fonts I see in font book when I select All Fonts:īiauKai, GB18030 bitmap, Hei, Kai, LiHei Pro, LiSong Pro, PMingLiU, SimSun, STFangson, STHeiti, STKaiti, STSong, Apple LiGothic, Apple LiSung, Our site carries over 30,000 PC fonts and Mac fonts. Similarly, Office might install fonts also and you may have to select those fonts during install.
#Chinese fonts for mac mac os#
I may have had to select "Install East Asian language fonts" from the Mac OS intall CD - I'm not sure because it's been a long long time since I installed the OS on this computer. The Character Palette is also checked.įont book shows a large number of Chinese related fonts installed. and Simplied Chinese input methods checked. In International Panel Input Menu options I have U.S. Here is a summary of mine - it might be useful for you or others using Mac. That being said, maybe it is a preferences or font issue in your settings. But, not the square-box problem you described! When I read some emails written in Chinese, the hanzi are occasionally wrong. The only problems I've ever had are actually on my iPhone.

I've never had any problems with Word, Powerpoint, Entourage, or Excel displaying Chinese characters. I'm using Mac OS 10.5 (Leopard) and all software updates have been done to the current version 10.5.7. All software displays Chinese characters correctly.

I have had no issues with any software on my Mac.
