title: How to display Chinese characters on Linux embedded devices Qt
body: <p>I have a software running on an embedded Linux written in Qt/QML. I am using a font family, let's call it <code>SomeFontFamily.otf</code>. This font family doesn't support Chinese characters, therefore when I want to display a Chinese text I am getting empty squares instead. If I run the same software on my desktop Linux I get the same result with Chinese text, but if I add a <code>.font</code> directory in my <code>home</code> folder with a font family that supports Chinese then it displays the characters. So I thought I can do the same on the embedded device and added a <code>.font</code> folder in my <code>home</code> directory with the right font, but unfortunately it didn't work. Then I have found <a href="http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qt-embedded-fonts.html" rel="nofollow">this</a> doc about Qt fonts on embedded devices. It says that I should put my font under <code>lib/fonts</code> directory because Qt will search there for it on embedded devices. I tried it, but unfortunately with no success. Anybody had a similar issue? Just for the record this is not translation related. I just want to be able to display Chinese characters in an english text.</p>