Reboot-free installation of Chinese fonts in Linux environment

When we use the Linux system, we often find that Chinese fonts are missing, resulting in failure to generate and display Chinese normally, and garbled characters. The following will briefly introduce how to install and extend new Chinese fonts to solve the above problems. The specific steps are as follows:

1. Download the Chinese character library

Download by searching online, or by copying the Chinese font library in the windows directory (C:\Windows\Fonts), such as Song type: simsun.ttf, Microsoft Yahei: msyh.ttf and msyhbd.ttf

2. Query the installed fonts of the Linux system

[root@updev1 ~]# fc-list

AR PL UMing TW:style=Light

AR PL UMing HK:style=Light

AR PL UMing CN:style=Light

AR PL UKai TW MBE:style=Book

AR PL UKai CN:style=Book

AR PL UKai HK:style=Book

AR PL UKai TW:style=Book

WenQuanYi Zen Hei, WenQuanYi Zheng Hei, WenQuanYi Zheng Hei: style=Regular

WenQuanYi Zen Hei Mono, WenQuanYi equal width and black, WenQuanYi equal width and black: style=Regular

AR PL UMing TW MBE:style=Light

WenQuanYi Zen Hei Sharp, Wenquanyi dot matrix is black, Wenquanyi dot matrix is black: style=Regular

Note: The query result through the command does not have the required Chinese font (Song style)

3. Create a font library directory and copy the corresponding font library files to this directory

[root@updev1 ~]# cd /usr/share/fonts

[root@updev1 fonts]# mkdir chinese

Copy the simsun.ttf file to this directory

Fourth, generate font index information

[root@updev1 fonts]# cd chinese

[root@updev1 chinese]# mkfontscale

[root@updev1 chinese]# mkfontdir

[root@updev1 chinese]# ll

total 10264

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 189 Sep 6 17:46 fonts.dir

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 189 Sep 6 17:46 fonts.scale

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10499104 Sep 6 17:46 simsun.ttf

Note: Generate corresponding fonts.scale and fonts.dir files

5. Check whether the installation has been successful

[root@updev1 chinese]# fc-list :lang=zh