![]() On Linux, even if your system is not in Chinese, you most likely have a fallback font that support CJK characters, on my Ubuntu in Firefox it's Droid Sans Fallback that the browser uses, as my computer currently has almost no CJK fonts installed. If not, Chinese language OS-s (whether Windows, OSX or Linux) will typically have at least one font that supports CJK glyphs, so their browser has a fallback font in case none of the listed font-family values can be mapped to a system font. And the web designer can 'safely' assume that the visitor will have support for at least one of the fonts (installed on their system). ![]() The key here is that the visitors of these websites come from HK or Taiwan, etc. ![]() PMingLiu font Character Set: Latin-1, Traditional Chinese (Code ). This PMingLiu font file is 5.4 MB in size. ![]() As you can see, most sites (at least news sites) rely on system fonts. PMingLiu features a mincho (serif) stroke style with proportional Latin characters. I have checked a few random news sites from HK and Taiwan, here are some examples of defining the font or font-family property: font-family: PMingLiu, mingliu, '細明體HKSCS-ExtB', 'Ming(for ISO10646)ExtB', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif font: 18px/1.7 'Microsoft YaHei', 'Verdana', 'Arial', 'PMingLiU', 'sans-serif' font: 15px/24px Simsun font-family: '宋体' font-family: 'Microsoft YaHei','微软雅黑','黑体','宋体' font: 12px/1 Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,'宋体',sans-serif font-family: 'Microsoft yahei' A couple of notes.
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