These selection will cover, in general Arabic, Thai, Ethiopic, Hebrew, Romanian, Persian, Korean Hangul, Greek, Persian, Russian/Slavic Cyrillic, Macedonian/Serbian, Armenian, Georgian, Lao, Devanagari, Urdu (Hindustani as in Northern India and Pakistan), Cherokee, Thaana languages support for desktop setups:Īpk add font-terminus font-bitstream-* font-noto font-noto-extra font-arabic-miscĪpk add font-misc-cyrillic font-mutt-misc font-screen-cyrillic font-winitzki-cyrillic font-cronyx-cyrillicĪpk add font-noto-arabic font-noto-armenian font-noto-cherokee font-noto-devanagari font-noto-ethiopic font-noto-georgianĪpk add font-noto-hebrew font-noto-lao font-noto-malayalam font-noto-tamil font-noto-thaana font-noto-thaiįc-cache -fv can be used to display the font locations and to update the cache. The following will add some partially supported Chinese fonts: These selections cover special Asiatic languages like Japanese, etc.:Īpk add font-terminus font-noto font-noto-thai font-noto-tibetan font-ipa font-sony-misc font-daewoo-misc font-jis-misc These selections add special support for cyrillic languages like Russian and Serbian, etc.:Īpk add font-vollkorn font-misc-cyrillic font-mutt-misc font-screen-cyrillic font-winitzki-cyrillic font-cronyx-cyrillic These selections will cover most languages and are a good fit for most setups:Īpk add font-terminus font-inconsolata font-dejavu font-noto font-noto-cjk font-awesome font-noto-extra

according to the Wikipedia Page on languages for article translation. Exceptions are Arabic, Persian, Thai, Tamil, etc.

font-misc-misc is installed with Xorg, so fonts for most languages (Japanese, Korean, Latin, Cyrillic) are already covered. The trusted system fonts that Alpine Linux packages typically are from well known sources like corporations like Google, Adobe, open organizations like Xorg or well known font designers or projects licensed as either SIL, GPL, etc.ĭefault internal fb fonts (tty console) or xorg fonts (desktops) are suitable for a default installation. Fonts have been used as a source of security exploits (See CVEs) so to reduce the spread of attack install fonts inside ~/.fonts. The user font location is located in ~/.fonts which is the preferred install font location especially from unknown sources. Note: The system font directory is located at /usr/share/fonts which is reserved for the Alpine package creators and the package system.

Google fonts chinese style