[OSM-dev] chinese font missing in mapnik

[Grant Slater]

>
> it uses deja vu/sans, but there is are no chinese glyphs in dejavu so 
> inkscape falls back to another sans font, if present, that has chinese 
> glyphs, half the tiles at home renders don't have any fonts capable of 
> rendering chinese either so they typically will render garbage, or 
> more commonly, nothing...
>

Arphic font is likely a good fallback.

Gentoo Package: media-fonts/arphicfonts (also worth looking into the cjk 
useflag)

Debian Package:  ttf-arphic-bkai00mp and ttf-arphic-gbsn00lp

Grant