For the record (so folks can search/find this info)...

After spending an afternoon digging around for various solutions to
seeing boxes with numbers in them for Chinese fonts in Firefox, and
finding not much more than "Just copy Micro$erfeds fonts" advice, I
got fed up and demanded of Google "I want OPEN SOURCE!"

I got the "WenQuanYi Bitmap Song CJK Font" project.
http://wqy.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/e...?BitmapSong_en

I found a simple quick-cheat to getting these fonts operational for
a single user.
(See the package included instructions for a full system install)

1: Download the fonts (I used wqy-bitmapfont-pcf-0.9.9-0.tar.gz)
2: tar zxvf wqy-bitmapfont*.tar.gz
3: copy the wenquanyi*.pcf files to ~/.fonts/ (create if required)
4: also copy the 85-wqy-bitmapsong.conf file to ~/.fonts/
5: Add "<dir>~/.fonts/</dir>" to .fonts.conf (create if required)

Then just restart X and Firefox.


Hope this is of some use to somebody somewhere sometime.

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