Limited Font Selection in Appearance Advanced Settings... Why?

Hi. I recently installed Ubuntu Linux on an old server unit my father sent to
me for the sake of messing around with, and while I was playing around with
the appearance settings in KDE (which I favor over GNOME, but that's a story
for another support forum entirely), I found a very nice-looking font that
looked great as a title bar font (specifically URW Chancery L Medium Italic,
a Postscript Type 1 font).

I wanted to use the same font for the title bar on my Windows XP
installation, which I've been running on my main computer. The only issue is
that, apparently my font selection when changing said font in the Display
Properties' appearance tab advanced options (boy, is that a mouthful) is
extremely limited, being restricted to a few Sans-serif fonts and, strangely
enough, MS (P)Mincho in addition.

For the record, as I tend to download a lot of content from native Japanese
sites, not only do I have East Asian Language support installed, but I've
also changed the locale settings for my system to Japanese in addition to
support Shift-JIS encoded Japanese text. Would this be contributing to the
issue?

Overall, is there any way to use a font not listed when changing the
appearance of my windows with my current configuration?

Thanks in advance. Luv ya all. 3

*1st*, change your locale settings back to Eng. Reboot your pc.
now u can see there're lotta fonts available in the 'advanced
appearance'.
simply change the default font of your system to the font you
like(kinda Chancery ?),then you may be satisfied about the hack if
things goes well as i did.
*2nd*, change your locale settings to Jap. Reboot your pc again.
*finally*,just enjoy!


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