This appears to be because fontconfig prefers the Chinese fonts due to the
larger number of glyphs available.
This seems to be along the same lines: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/28
I have had luck working around this by using the following ~/.fonts.config:
sans-s
Seeing this on a different machine with 8.10
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Some Kanji in KDE apps not displayed properly with en_US.UTF8, ok with
ja_JP.UTF8
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/294490
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Here's a graphical example.
The 'top' instance of kate was started with LANG explicitly set to ja_JP.UTF8,
the second instance of kate was started from the GNOME applications menu and is
running with LANG set to en_US.UTF8. Yudit and gedit are included for
comparison' sake.
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I've also confirmed that this can be reproduced simply by the following:
1) Log into GNOME choosing 'English' as the GDM language
2) open a terminal window
3) explicitly set 'en_US.UTF8' (export LANG=en_US.UTF8)
4) start 'kate' from the command line
5) input the came character as above or open a t
Public bug reported:
When running KDE apps under either GNOME or KDE on Hardy with LANG=en_US.UTF8,
some Kanji are displayed improperly (only a square is displayed). If 'Japanese'
is chosen as the language from the GDM login screen resulting in
LANG=ja_JP.UTF8, the same Kanji which were previou
