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What fonts come bundled with iOS that have a unique set of Traditional Chinese characters?
It seems the a list of fonts included in iOS 5 resides at iosfonts.com; however, it seems that most fonts (ex: "GillSans-Bold") will use a common typeface (though I'm not sure which it is) to render Chinese characters.
So far, through trial and error, it seems the following have unique Chinese character sets:
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Simplified Chinese: PingFang SC. Traditional Chinese for Taiwan: PingFang TC. Traditional Chinese for Hong Kong and Macau: PingFang HK. Korean: Apple SD Gothic Neo.
Big5 is used mainly for Traditional Chinese characters and is widely used in Taiwan and Hong Kong. GB is usually used for Simplified Chinese that is the standard for mainland China.
Sim Sun is the number one widely used Chinese font. Its popularity is largely due to the fact that it is the default Chinese input font in Windows. Song Ti is probably the earliest Chinese font used in China, tracing back to the Song Dynasty (960-1279) when printing technology was flourishing.
To input Chinese characters, you need to add a Chinese keyboard in your device's settings. You can do this by going to Settings > General > Keyboards > Add New Keyboard.
There's HiraMinProN-W6 and W3 as well, the HiraKakuProN has a W3 version and there are light versions of the STHeiti* fonts. I think that's all.
You can enumerate them with some of the Core Text functions and find them that way. Worth noting that the STHeiti* fonts have 51-52,000 glyphs, the Hira* ones have about 20,000
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