Forum in Taiwanese/Traditional Chinese

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I want to show, how the forums look with traditional Chinese active, the trick is with using another standard font in much bigger sizes: some Chinese fonts have annotated characters, here in green, that tell how to pronounce a character, of course you’re obliged to learn the alphabet for these, too, it’s actually a very short exercise.

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EDIT: Simplified characters, used on the mainland, are derived from scholarly, scholastic handwriting that use short versions for traditional characters for faster writing, these have been vetted and turned into simplified Chinese characters, in other words, they are very conservative-traditional, if not more conservative than “traditional Chinese”. I’m not against simplified characters, just to get that right.

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I believe the Discourse software in general, leverages your systems fonts and fall-backs.

So the Chinese text being rendered there, is likely coming from a font on your system that it’s falling back to, and not a font that Discourse is providing.

In Chromium based browsers, you can see what this font is by righ-clicking on it, and going to Inspect, then going to the Computed tab and scrolling to the bottom of that tab.

There you’ll find a list of Rendered Fonts.

I have a rather annoying issue on mine where it fails to pick up the multiple Chinese fonts I have explicitly installed on my system

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I set the browser default font to the Chinese font, it’s not fallback.

Chinese Zhuyin fonts

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I have a rather annoying issue on mine where it fails to pick up the multiple Chinese fonts

And you’re not even complaining about the tones.