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There's a bug in the way Ubuntu displays Japanese fonts that I need fixed rather urgently.

The bug is that Ubuntu displays the wrong Japanese characters sometimes.

I'm studying Japanese, and having the wrong characters display is obviously problematic.

However, as you can see if you look at the most recent comments on the bug report, fixing the bug seems stalled on the fact that some specific fonts are probably broken, but I don't know which ones.

Here's what I think is happening. If Japanese text is used in a context where the specified font does not contain Japanese characters, then Ubuntu defaults to some other font for the words that are written in Japanese.

However, it is unclear to me what that default Japanese font would be, and how I can determine it.

Is there a way I can determine the default font being used when I see text on my screen that is showing the faulty characters?

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Source: bug 616169 comment made by martin-autotelic

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I've solved this problem for me. Following information here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1487447 Basically I removed all Japanese fonts listed as installed in Synaptic, and then installed only these:

ttf-kochi-mincho-naga10
ttf-kochi-gothic-naga10
ttf-sazanami-gothic
ttf-sazanami-mincho

Now I am getting the correct kanji consistently. Unfortunately, I do not know which of the fonts I uninstalled was corrupted, as I do not have the time to test and experiment. I will report if I work it out, though.

If you want to exactly know what font is messing up you will have remove all of them and have to start adding fonts one at a time and check if the problems starts to show up (lot of work but if you do please update the bug ;) ) To give you a headstart these fonts in the ubuntuforums link mentioned in the quote have been called not to be the culprits by user Frantic_Earthling: 

ttf-umeplus
ttf-kochi-mincho-naga10
ttf-kochi-gothic-naga10
ttf-sazanami-gothic
ttf-sazanami-mincho
otf-ipafont-mincho
otf-ipafont-gothic
otf-ipaexfont-gothic
otf-ipaexfont-mincho
anthy
libanthy0
ttf-takao-pgothic
ibus-anthy
libtext-wrapi18n-perl
acroread-fonts
python-chardet
im-switch
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