Font Registry Settings for Simplified Chinese

For more information about these settings, see Customizing Fonts.

The following registry keys must be set to enable Simsun fonts for Simplified Chinese.

The HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\GDI registry key enables font linking. The following table shows the named value for the GDI configuration parameters.

Note   The default registry values vary depending on which features are included in your platform. For more information, see Default Registry Settings.

Value : type Description
FontLinkMethods : REG_DWORD Indicates whether font linking is enabled. Set to 1 to enable font linking.

The HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\GDI\GlyphCache registry key specifies the size limit for character glyphs. The following table shows the named value for the GlyphCache configuration parameters.

Value : type Description
limit : REG_DWORD Indicates size of the cache for character glyphs. Set to 400.

The HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\FontLink\SystemLink registry key can be used to indicate whether the Simplified Chinese Simsun TrueType font is linked with a specified standard system font. The following table shows the named values for the SystemLink configuration parameters.

Value : type Description
Arial : REG_SZ Set to "\\Windows\\simsun.ttc,NSimSun"
Times New Roman : REG_SZ Set to "\\Windows\\simsun.ttc,NSimSun".
Tahoma: REG_SZ Set to "\\Windows\\simsun.ttc,NSimSun".
Courier New : REG_SZ Set to "\\Windows\\simsun.ttc,NSimSun".
Symbol : REG_SZ Set to "\\Windows\\simsun.ttc,NSimSun".

The HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\FontLink\SystemLink registry key can also be used to indicate whether the Traditional Chinese Simsun Agfa AC3 compressed font is linked with a specified standard system font. The following table shows the named values for the SystemLink configuration parameters.

Value : type Description
Arial : REG_SZ Set to "\\Windows\\simsun.ac3,NSimSun".
Times New Roman : REG_SZ Set to "\\Windows\\simsun.ac3,NSimSun".
Tahoma: REG_SZ Set to "\\Windows\\simsun.ac3,NSimSun".
Courier New : REG_SZ Set to "\\Windows\\simsun.ac3,NSimSun".
Symbol : REG_SZ Set to "\\Windows\\simsun.ac3,NSimSun".

The following table shows the registry value for HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\FontLink\SkipTable.

Value : type Description
Tahoma : REG_SZ Set to "005c,00a5,007e,0391-03c9,2026,2116,221a,25a0-25ff".

See Also

General Font Registry Settings | Font Registry Settings for Japan | Font Registry Settings for Korea | Font Registry Settings for Traditional Chinese | System Font Registry Settings | Font Linking Registry Settings

Last updated on Wednesday, April 13, 2005

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