how can I use Aqua Emacs's Chinese font in Carbon Emacs?

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I love the Chinese font support in AquaEmacs (with core: "GNU Emacs 23.2.50.1 (i386-apple-darwin9.8.0, NS apple-appkit-949.54). Is there anyway I can hack in and use its Chinese font in Carbon Emacs (with core: "GNU Emacs 22.3.1 (i386-apple-darwin9.8.0, Carbon Version 1.6.0)?

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Emacs does not include its own Chinese font, it uses ones already installed on the system.

That said, the font support changed drastically between Emacs 22 and 23, and I don't know what support was like in Carbon Emacs for non Latin fonts. Maybe you just need to use a different format for the name of the font, or maybe you need to define a fontset to use that font for Chinese text.

Hacking the Emacs 23 font support into Emacs 22 for Carbon would be a big project, why don't you just use Emacs 23? There is still a version of Carbon Emacs being maintained if you have something against the Cocoa/Nextstep port that is the current official version available for OS X.