Help:Multilingual support (East Asian)

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Template:Information page Throughout Wikipedia, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese and Zhuang characters (CJKV characters) are used in relevant articles.

Computers with older operating systems with the default language set to English or other Western or Cyrillic language settings will require some setup and proper fonts (See also: List of CJK fonts) to be able to display the characters.

Newer computer operating systems may not require any additional steps to view most CJKV characters.

Check for existing support

If you see boxes, question marks, or meaningless letters mixing into the first part, you do not have full support for East Asian characters.

Chinese

The text below has been language-tagged as Chinese and is shown in the default font used by your browser. Unless your browser locale is set to Taiwan, Hong Kong or Macau, this is usually the same font as is used for simplified Chinese characters.
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Japanese

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Korean

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Vietnamese

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Hán-Nôm

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Zhuang

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Sawndip

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Instructions

Windows XP and Server 2003

Windows XP and Server 2003 include native support for East Asian languages. To install the files, check the Install files for East Asian languages in the Control Panel > Regional and Language Options > Languages. Note that a minimum of 230 MB of disk space is required and that the Windows CD-ROM is needed while installing support for East Asian languages using this method. (Non-East Asian localizations only)

See also Enabling International Support in Windows XP/Server 2003 Family, including setting up Input Language and language of menus and dialogs. (Archived from the originalTemplate:Dead link on 14 August 2016)

Alternatively, you can download the following installation packages. No disc is needed for this option.

Simplified Chinese.
Traditional Chinese.
Japanese.
Korean.

Windows Vista, 7, 8

Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Windows 8 include support for East Asian characters in the standard installation.

Windows 10

In the standard installation of Windows 10, Dengxian, SimFang, SimHei, SimKai, DFKai, MingLiU, Meiryo, MS Mincho, Ms Gothic, Yu Mincho, Batang, Gungsuh, Dotum and Gulim are no longer included. So when running certain apps on Windows 10, some characters display as a square or rectangular box, or as a box with a dot, question mark or "x" inside. To solve this problem, you must install the optional font feature of the specific language.

Instructions for Windows 10

macOS

All recent versions of macOS (10.4+) support East Asian characters natively. You may need to install appropriate fonts.

GNOME

GNOME supports East Asian characters natively. You may need to install appropriate fonts.

KDE

KDE supports East Asian characters natively. You may need to install appropriate fonts.

Debian-based GNU/Linux

For a large collection of Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, and Korean fonts encoded in the Unicode standard:

sudo apt-get install fonts-noto-cjk

Arch Linux

For a large collection of fonts which comprehensively support Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, with a consistent design and look, install the following package: 

pacman -S adobe-source-han-sans-otc-fonts

Gentoo Linux

Enabling the cjk (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) USE flag improves East Asian support in some packages, but is not essential.

Some useful font packages are (category media-fonts) arphicfonts (han), baekmuk-fonts (hangul) and kochi-substitute (hiragana/katakana).

e.g. for viewing Chinese text: 

# emerge arphicfonts

Mageia Linux

Install the appropriate fonts packages. For example: 

# urpmi fonts-ttf-japanese fonts-ttf-chinese fonts-ttf-korean

FreeBSD

CJK fonts can be installed on FreeBSD using freebsd ports collection: 

# cd /usr/ports/x11-fonts/cyberbit-ttfonts && make install clean
# cd /usr/ports/Template:Not a typo/font-kochi && make install clean

or by installing precompiled packages: 

# pkg install ja-font-kochi

NetBSD

On NetBSD and other systems using pkgsrc, one can install CJK fonts with the following commands: 

# cd /usr/pkgsrc/fonts/kochi-ttf && make install clean
# cd /usr/pkgsrc/fonts/cyberbit-ttf && make install clean

Other UNIX Distributions

Download the appropriate .ttf file (for example, kochi-gothic-subst.ttf) and copy it to your system's TrueType font directory (for example, /usr/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/). For example, (for Dejavu fonts): 

wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/dejavu/dejavu/2.35/dejavu-fonts-ttf-2.35.tar.bz2
tar -xjvf dejavu-fonts-ttf-2.33.tar.bz2
cp ./dejavu-fonts-ttf-2.33/ttf/* /usr/lib/X11/fonts/TTF

(or get the link to the current version here, and then update this help)

Then run (as root): 

fc-cache /usr/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/

Restart X if it is in use, and the new font should be installed.

Unicode Fonts

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Input methods

Vietnamese Hán Nôm characters

Weasel Han Nom IME

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The screenshot of Weasel Han Nom IME

Weasel Han Nom IME (Bộ gõ Hán Nôm Uy-xơn 部𢫈漢喃威𢺛) developed by Han Nom Revival Committee of Vietnam: Download and Instructions

See also

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