What is a ttf font I can freely use that covers Chinese, Japanese and Korean for Java

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Paul Taylor picture Paul Taylor · Feb 15, 2018 · Viewed 9.4k times · Source

On a blackbox linux system neither the system or the openjdk had any fonts so this caused issue for my Java application.

So far to get round this I have copied the Lucida fonts from an Oracle Java install into the jre/lib/fonts dir and ran fc-cache -rv jre/lib/fonts and that has worked for me.

But it seems these standard fonts do not support CKJ scripts, what is a font I can copy to fonts that will add support for these scripts for my Java application.

Note I cannot run install or similar on the linux machine I need a font I can just bundle with my application that I can then copy to the jre/lib/fonts folder.

Answer

RoelN picture RoelN · Feb 20, 2018

You could take a look at Noto, which will "support all languages with a harmonious look and feel."

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