How to use two different fonts for chinese and english in firefox?

Question

I want to use Wenquanyi for Chinese and Palatino for English in firefox . How to do it ? Thanks

iKrshnan · Accepted Answer · 2012-02-07 15:15:35Z

First of all, make sure you have installed the required fonts properly. You can install fonts by following steps:

Now selecting fonts in Firefox:

Open Firefox->Edit->Preferences->Content (tab),
Under Fonts & Colors click Advanced,
In Fonts for list-box select Chinese language,
Select Wenquanyi font in Serif, Sans-Serif and Monospace list-boxes,
Now repeat step 3, this time select Western for English,
Then repeat step 4 with Palatino font for English.

You can also uncheck Allow pages to choose their own fonts, instead of my selections above check-box.

Also try by changing Character Encoding, unless Western (ISO-8859-1) (which is default) or Unicode (UTF-8) does work.

On my system , Setting in Western for English does not work. Settings in Chinese language controls this . Thanks
Does this matter with locale ? Now my locale is zh_CN.UTF-8 .
@waterloo2005 well, it worked out in some sites. have you tried by unchecking Allow pages to choose... ? And I have find out one more thing. Open Preferences-> Content (tab), under Languages click Choose. Here add more languages in which you want to display web pages.
I have unchecked 'Allow pages to choose... '. In language setting , I choose 'zh-cn,zh,en-us,en' . In askubuntu site , it display English using chinese font setting . In wikipedia ,it display English using beautiful Palatino font . Of course , I want to display English using Palatino.

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