Thanks zentara. I tried it out and saw a lot of basic fonts on different Solaris and Linux boxes, but didn't see any Asian characters in there. So without ever specifying a font in my script, I'm wondering what font it chose and how it managed to display (almost all of) the Chinese characters.

I guess I need to ask even more basic questions:

I've added some fontCreate stuff from a Slaven Rezic example I saw somewhere and now call out a specific font. But I still don't see how to specify anything differently to get the missing Chinese characters to appear.

Modified code follows. (It works fine in Windows, so run in Unix to see the problem).

(Example removed. Refer to code at beginning of thread -- shockers)

In reply to Re^2: Chinese font problem in Perl/Tk by shockers
in thread Chinese fonts problem in Perl/Tk by shockers

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