1. ttf-arphic-uming, ttf-wqy-microhei, ttf-wqy-zenhei, xfonts-wqy and ttf-opensymbol are some packages related to Chinese fonts.

2. If you have Adobe Reader installed on your computer, you can use Adobe Chinese fonts for free.

3. To check Chinese fonts installed on your computer, you can use the command fc-list :lang=zh-cn | sort.

4. To install extra …

Using portable applications is a good way to make your digital life easier. They do not eat up your disk quickly nor do they mess up the registry of your Windows OS. You can always copy these applications from one computer to another and use it out of box. Or …

1. xetex is the state-of-art way for dealing with Chinese type setting. You can install xetex on Debian series of Linux distributions (Debian, Ubuntu, Linux Mint, etc.) using the following command.

wajig install texlive-xetex 

You can use command xelatex to compile. The utf-8 format is preferred.

There are 2 good ways …