-- working version google fireflysung.ttf (or fetch ~/fireflysung.ttf) or ftp from misun2/fireflysung.ttf cp into /usr/share/X11/fonts/TTF this work cp into /usr/share/fonts/default/TTF that's it!! go to browser -- xxx no need: mkfontscale xxx no need: mkfontdir -- # ls fireflysung.ttf fireflysung.ttf # pwd /usr/share/fonts/default/TTF go to IE, now has chinese font... following as ref only, don't take it too serious -- For viewing Chinese characters in Firefox, Seamonkey etc, download wqy-bitmapfont-pcf-0.9.9-0.tar.gz from http://downloads.sourceforge.net/wqy/ and install to /usr/share/fonts. -- mkfontscale mkfontdir fc-cache -vf -- then restart X