Cannot display Chinese characters

[林琼发]

Kicad Version: 4.3.6-e0-6349~53~ubuntu 16.04 release build
Platfrom: Ubuntu16.04(Linux 4.8.0-45-generic x86_64)
wxWidgets: Version 3.0.2(debug,wchar_t,compiler with C++ ABI 1009,GCC 5.4.0, sx container, compatible with 2.8)
Eeschema show "??" when adding Chinese characters

[Bob Cousins (bobcousins42)]

I did some work on implementing CJK fonts https://forum.kicad.info/t/when-to-write-chinese-characters/4753/6 This is a conversion from a GNU bitmapped font to a vector font suitable for KiCad, so I don't know if the rendering is acceptable.

We could add new characters to newstroke_font.cpp, but I don't know if adding thousands of new characters would cause compilation or other performance issues, possibly we need to arrange the data in blocks of 4096 characters or something.

As I don't read/write Chinese, I would like some feedback from chinese readers whether the bitmap to vector font is acceptable before persuing the idea further. A crude font may not be better than nothing.

If the bitmap font is not acceptable, then we need to find CJK symbols in a vector format that have an open license.

[Bob Cousins (bobcousins42)]

Oh, this is probably a duplicate of 1021514

[Jeff Young (jeyjey)]

Yeah, there are quite a few duplicates of this one, but none of the others have part of a solution. ;)

Linking this one in with a reference to the work Bob has done (thanks!) in the top-level bug.