installing fonts in client machine

Question

I'm building a website(PHP) with chinese fonts. The problem is most browsers doesn't have chinese fonts installed by default. I want the client machine to have this font installed to view the webpage.

How can I do this?

Edit:

I've partially solved the problem with this website : http://www.font2web.com/

it works in IE and FF but not in webkit browsers. Do i need to do some css hack for webkit browsers?

Answer 1

Most computers today have unicode fonts installed, so as long as you're HTML is encoded for your target language, you should be OK.

Answer 2

You say most browsers don't have Chinese fonts installed. I beg to differ -- I don't generally browse chinese sites, but when I have done (or when there have been Chinese comments in an English forum), I've always seen the Chinese characters. Same goes for other scripts such as Russian.

Maybe there's more to it than that, but that has been my experience ever since Windows XP, including Windows 7 and also various Linux desktops.

In any case, I would say it's even more likely that anyone who can read Chinese would have the appropriate fonts installed. And anyone who can't read chinese probably won't affected by not having them render properly.