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/

Google just released Pinyin Input method

Google just released its Chinese input method: http://tools.google.com/pinyin. It works very similar to Ziguang input(紫光). As always, you will not be disappointed by Google. As a big google fan, I'll say bye-bye to 紫光.

个人感觉Google还能火很长一段时间。昨天刚刚发布的Google Pinyin,今天在mitbbs上就已经被炒得十分火爆了。 Google就靠这些简单实用的小软件培养了一批铁杆的Google迷，想想它的市场会有多大。