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Salix comes with Wenquanyi, but there are some less common CJK characters not included. Han Nom apparently has CJK Extensions A and B in full, see:

http://www.pinyinjoe.com/pinyin/pinyin_addins.htm

I'm no expert on Chinese fonts, but I wonder whether it would be worth including this as standard or in the repository?

Regardless of that, can anyone tell me how to install it or point me towards info about font installation? The only "Linux" version of this I could find is specifically for Debian. Maybe installing fonts is ridiculously easy, but I'd be grateful for any guidance.

The practical upshot is that Wenquanyi is fine for general use, but doesn't cover certain relatively rare characters used particularly in literature. It's as if you couldn't read Goethe or Shakespeare or Homer.

mimosa wrote:Regardless of that, can anyone tell me how to install it or point me towards info about font installation? The only "Linux" version of this I could find is specifically for Debian. Maybe installing fonts is ridiculously easy, but I'd be grateful for any guidance.

If it's a truetype font then just copy it to /usr/share/fonts/TTF/ and after that run as root fc-cache -f .

Thenktor, that worked like a treat. You can see what I was missing here:

http://ctext.org/font-test-page

Thanks!