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When you select a Chinese input method and start typing, Windows 7's default fonts will be Songti: SimSum for Simplified characters and PMingLiU for Traditional.

I am not planning to cover these in detail here. Language fonts for Yi (Yi Baiti), Tibetan (Microsoft Himalaya), Uighur (Microsoft Uighur) and Mongolian (Mongolian Baiti). In your font menu you should also find Chinese minority Also, when using these fonts with the China/Singapore IME, if you copy your text into other applications or send to other people there may be some problems so please experiment a little first before relying on them. Two more tips for you: in many applications you can make other 'PRC' fonts your default font instead of SimSun, but you cannot do that with these Traditional fonts. So, you can really only select these fonts after you've typed the characters by going back to highlight them and choosing the font you want. Even if you set that IME to Traditional character mode, if you try to type in these fonts you'll be bumped back into the default font (usually SimSun).

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† Apparently what Microsoft means when they say these fonts are 'supported' by the China/Singapore IME is not full support but display support. 'monospaced' refers only to non-Chinese characters.

T/HK/M = MS New Phonetic & other 'Chinese, Traditional' input for Taiwan/HK/Macau.

C/S = MSPY and other 'Chinese, Simplified' input methods for mainland and Singapore.

(This can be changed in the current document via your font menu, or permanently in the default settings for each application, however I don't recommend changing the overall default system font.

SimSun for Simplified Chinese (mainland/Singapore) keyboards.

PMingLiU for Traditional Chinese (Taiwan/HK/Macau) keyboards.

* The highlighted fonts are the system defaults: Simplified/Traditional Heiti, proportional *** Traditional Xi Ming ( Songti), proportiona l*** Traditional Xi Ming ( Songti), monospaced ***

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However, Windows 7 and Vista already include the following long list of Chinese fonts, (and a few more fonts were introduced in Windows 8 and 10): Font menu Many people arrive here looking for additional fonts, so I'll start by pointing you folks to another page, my Survey of Free and Commercial Third-Party Fonts. Chinese fonts in Windows 7 and Vista :: Pinyin Joe