看到蠻多人都會對於 Ubuntu 上的中文字型有一些意見，所以在這裡分享我的最新作法（在 Ubuntu Dapper 下）

首先，我會在 $HOME 目錄下（假設我的帳號是 ericsk，那就是 /home/ericsk）建立一個 .fonts 的目錄（不要忘記前面有個 . ），然後把 Windows 下需要的字型檔放到裡面來，我的會則會拿下列檔案來用：

arialbd.ttf arialbi.ttf ariali.ttf arial.ttf courbd.ttf courbi.ttf couri.ttf cour.ttf mingliu.ttc timesbd.ttf timesbi.ttf timesi.ttf times.ttf

這些字型檔原本都是存在 C:WINDOWSFonts 下面的。然後，再在 $HOME 目錄下建立一個 .fonts.conf 的檔案，內容如下：

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
<fontconfig>

    <!-- MicroSoft mingliu.ttc -->
    <match target="font">
        <test name="family"><string>MingLiU</string></test>
        <edit name="antialias"><bool>false</bool></edit>
        <edit name="hinting"><bool>true</bool></edit>
        <edit name="autohint"><bool>false</bool></edit>
    </match>

    <match target="font">
        <test name="family"><string>MingLiU</string></test>
        <test name="pixelsize" compare="more_eq"><int>17</int></test>
        <edit name="antialias" mode="assign"><bool>true</bool></edit>
        <edit name="hinting" mode="assign"><bool>true</bool></edit>
    </match>

    <match target="font">
        <test name="family"><string>細明體</string></test>
        <edit name="antialias"><bool>false</bool></edit>
        <edit name="hinting"><bool>true</bool></edit>
        <edit name="autohint"><bool>false</bool></edit>
    </match>

    <match target="font">
        <test name="family"><string>細明體</string></test>
        <test name="pixelsize" compare="more_eq"><int>17</int></test>
        <edit name="antialias" mode="assign"><bool>true</bool></edit>
        <edit name="hinting" mode="assign"><bool>true</bool></edit>
    </match>

    <match target="font">
        <test name="family"><string>PMingLiU</string></test>
        <edit name="antialias"><bool>false</bool></edit>
        <edit name="hinting"><bool>true</bool></edit>
        <edit name="autohint"><bool>false</bool></edit>
    </match>

    <match target="font">
        <test name="family"><string>PMingLiU</string></test>
        <test name="pixelsize" compare="more_eq"><int>17</int></test>
        <edit name="antialias" mode="assign"><bool>true</bool></edit>
        <edit name="hinting" mode="assign"><bool>true</bool></edit>
    </match>

    <match target="font">
        <test name="family"><string>新細明體</string></test>
        <edit name="antialias"><bool>false</bool></edit>
        <edit name="hinting"><bool>true</bool></edit>
        <edit name="autohint"><bool>false</bool></edit>
    </match>

    <match target="font">
        <test name="family"><string>新細明體</string></test>
        <test name="pixelsize" compare="more_eq"><int>17</int></test>
        <edit name="antialias" mode="assign"><bool>true</bool></edit>
        <edit name="hinting" mode="assign"><bool>true</bool></edit>
    </match>

    <match target="font">
        <test name="family"><string>MingLiU</string></test>
        <edit name="globaladvance"><bool>false</bool></edit>
    </match>

    <match target="font">
        <!-- check to see if the font is just regular -->
        <test name="weight" compare="less_eq">
            <int>100</int>
        </test>
        <!-- check to see if the pattern requests bold -->
        <test target="pattern" name="weight" compare="more_eq">
            <int>180</int>
        </test>
        <!-- set the embolden flag -->
        <edit name="embolden" mode="assign">
            <bool>true</bool>
        </edit>
    </match>

    <alias>
        <family>serif</family>
        <prefer>
            <famliy>DejaVu Serif</family>
            <family>MingLiU</family>
        </prefer>
    </alias>

    <alias>
        <family>sans-serif</family>
        <prefer>
            <famliy>DejaVu Sans</family>
            <family>MingLiU</family>
        </prefer>
    </alias>

</fontconfig>

sudo fc-cache -f -v

然後重新啟動 X 視窗環境（最簡單的最作法是登出再登入）就可以看到效果了！

不過我目前試驗的結果，用細明體來當中文字的話好像有時候會掉字，據說是 cairo 的 bug 。