Chinese characters showing as question marks

Question

This has been asked before, but I can\'t figure out what\'s wrong. I\'m printing pdfs using phantomjs .render().

The rendered page is basically a local

Answer 1

You need a chinese font. None of them is in a chinese font family.

font: normal 17px helvetica,arial,verdana,sans-serif

Here are some font has chinese char.

宋体：SimSun; 黑体：SimHei; 新宋体：NSimSun; 微软雅黑：Microsoft YaHei; 新細明體：PMingLiU

This is much more than a guide.Chinese Standard Web Fonts: A Guide to CSS Font Family Declarations for Web Design in Simplified Chinese

This has Traditional Chinese fonts.Chinese web fonts

Google's font. Sorry for not being a link, there is a limit for me.

noto-sans-hans

Adobe's typekit

source-han-sans

Test Html file:

    
    
    



    

    
你好中文！111
    
宋体
    
    

        
黑体
        
楷体
        
微软雅黑
    

Result

Lastest to do, try to change your location to china. I don't expect this working, as I tried the phantomjs in win10 ENG preview, working very well. Control Panel > Region > Administrative > Language for non-Unicode programs