Built-in iOS fonts with support for Chinese characters?

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codeperson picture codeperson · Oct 30, 2011 · Viewed 9.5k times · Source

What fonts come bundled with iOS that have a unique set of Traditional Chinese characters?

It seems the a list of fonts included in iOS 5 resides at iosfonts.com; however, it seems that most fonts (ex: "GillSans-Bold") will use a common typeface (though I'm not sure which it is) to render Chinese characters.

So far, through trial and error, it seems the following have unique Chinese character sets:

  • STHeitiSC-Medium
  • STHeitiTC-Medium
  • HiraKakuProN-W6

Answer

rols picture rols · Jan 15, 2013

There's HiraMinProN-W6 and W3 as well, the HiraKakuProN has a W3 version and there are light versions of the STHeiti* fonts. I think that's all.

You can enumerate them with some of the Core Text functions and find them that way. Worth noting that the STHeiti* fonts have 51-52,000 glyphs, the Hira* ones have about 20,000

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