Installing a font for the Chinese standard GB 18030 character set

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Environment

  • RHEL 9
  • RHEL 8
  • RHEL 7

Issue

How can I install a certified font that supports the Chinese GB 18030 character set?

Resolution

GB18030 TrueType Chinese Character Song Font designed and manufactured by Beijing Zhong Yi Electronics Co. for the China National Standard, has been appraised by China authorized department and tested by the China Electronics Standardization Institute.

The Zhong Yi Song font is officially certified by the Chinese government as correctly covering the GB18030 standard character set.

Warning

End users are not permitted to redistribute this font.

Revision coverage

  • The older zhongyi-song-fonts package version 0.1 supports the obsolete GB18030-2000/GB18030-2005 revision.
  • The zhongyi-song-fonts package version 3.0 or later supports the current GB18030-2022 revision Level 2 of the Chinese standard.

Procedure

To install the Zhong Yi Song font:

  1. Register your RHEL installation:

  2. Enable the Supplementary repository:

    • On RHEL 9 with the x64 architecture:

      # subscription-manager repos --enable rhel-9-for-x86_64-supplementary-rpms

    • On RHEL 9 with the ARM64 architecture:

      # subscription-manager repos --enable rhel-9-for-aarch64-supplementary-rpms

    • On RHEL 8 with the x64 architecture:

      # subscription-manager repos --enable rhel-8-for-x86_64-supplementary-rpms

    • On RHEL 8 with the ARM64 architecture:

      # subscription-manager repos --enable rhel-8-for-aarch64-supplementary-rpms

    • On RHEL 7 with the x64 architecture:

      # subscription-manager repos --enable rhel-7-server-supplementary-rpms

  3. Install the zhongyi-song-fonts package:

    • On RHEL 9:

      # dnf install zhongyi-song-fonts

    • On RHEL 8:

      # yum install zhongyi-song-fonts

    • On RHEL 7:

      # yum install zhongyi-song-fonts

Root Cause

The zhongyi-song-fonts package is proprietary and can only be distributed in the RHEL Supplementary package repo.

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