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What fonts come bundled with iOS that have a unique set of Traditional Chinese characters?

It seems the a list of fonts included in iOS 5 resides at iosfonts.com; however, it seems that most fonts (ex: "GillSans-Bold") will use a common typeface (though I'm not sure which it is) to render Chinese characters.

So far, through trial and error, it seems the following have unique Chinese character sets:

  • STHeitiSC-Medium
  • STHeitiTC-Medium
  • HiraKakuProN-W6
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  • What do you mean by 'unique'? – bmargulies Oct 30 '11 at 02:07
  • bmargulies: If a font doesn't contain a script you're trying to use font substitution kicks in and picks glyphs from another font. Since this is usually independent of the originally selected font, you'll get a different look only from fonts that contain glyphs from the respective script. – Joey Oct 30 '11 at 02:14
  • You solved a problem I've had with certain Chinese characters displaying incorrectly on my iPhone (all I had to do was use the STHeitiSC-Medium font in the app I was using!). Thanks for this! – aelephant Aug 15 '12 at 10:14
  • HiraKakuProN-W6 looks like Japanese,Japanese don't have as much characters in Chinese.As on http://iosfonts.com/, it says there are also STHeitiSC-Light and STHeitiTC-Light. Also Notice that SC means Simplified Chinese, which is used only in China mainland, and TC means Traditional Chinese, which is used in other part of world. – CarmeloS Feb 25 '13 at 02:12

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There's HiraMinProN-W6 and W3 as well, the HiraKakuProN has a W3 version and there are light versions of the STHeiti* fonts. I think that's all.

You can enumerate them with some of the Core Text functions and find them that way. Worth noting that the STHeiti* fonts have 51-52,000 glyphs, the Hira* ones have about 20,000

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