How to beautify Chinese characters using Windows fonts in Ubuntu

如何使用xp带的字体来进行Ubuntu中文美化

The font comes with Ubuntu looks really ugly. Here is a way to beautify Chinese Characters using Windows fonts like SimSun.

Copy simsun.ttc, tahoma.ttf from windows/fonts directory to /usr/share/fonts/zh_CN/TrueType，then update Ubuntu fonts list using the following command:

sudo mkdir -p /usr/share/fonts/zh_CN/TrueType
sudo cp simsun.ttc /usr/share/fonts/zh_CN/TrueType/
sudo cp tahoma.ttf /usr/share/fonts/zh_CN/TrueType/
sudo chmod 644 /usr/share/fonts/zh_CN/TrueType/*
cd /usr/share/fonts/zh_CN/TrueType/
sudo mkfontscale
sudo mkfontdir
sudo fc-cache /usr/share/fonts/zh_CN/TrueType/