Japanese fonts not displaying correctly

[Billie O'Dwyer]

I use Google Chrome normally, but periodically check back to see if Midori would work as a replacement.
I've noticed that Japanese fonts look a great deal better in Chrome than in Midori, and this is something of a dealbreaker for me. Both browsers are set to Unicode (UTF-8) encoding.

[Danielle Foré (danrabbit)]

OP can you still reproduce this issue with the latest Midori? If so, can you paste the contents of about:version?

[Billie O'Dwyer (0d-billie)]

Problem still exists, here's the requested output:

alias a=b; echo Copy carefully #bout:version

Version numbers in brackets show the version used at runtime.

Command line midori
Midori 0.5.0 ((null))
GTK+ 3.4.2 (3.4.2) Glib 2.32.3 (2.32.3)
WebKitGTK+ 1.8.3 (1.8.3) libSoup 2.38.1
cairo 1.10.2 (1.10.2) libnotify 0.7.5
gcr No granite 0.2
single instance libunique 3.0.2
Platform X11; Linux x86_64
Identification Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux) AppleWebKit/535.22 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/18.0.1025.133 Safari/535.22 Midori/0.5
Video Formats H264 [x] Ogg Theora [x] WebM [x]

Netscape Plugins:

about:dial about:geolocation about:home about:new about:nodocs about:paths about:private about:search about:widgets

[Gemma Seymour (lgcvsa)]

This is almost certainly a font issue, as ugly Japanese fonts were previously a problem in Chrome, as well. So far as I can see, I can't find any way to change the fonts used by Midori without editing the config file manually. I've changed my default encoding and charset to UTF-8, and my default font to Bitstream Charter, same as Chrome, but this is a per-script issue. I'm trying to find out what font Chrome uses for Japanese, but it doesn't seem to show up anywhere in Chrome dialogs or config files that I've found. If you install the "Advanced Font Options" extension, it just tells you "default", when you look under Japanese.

[Gemma Seymour (lgcvsa)]

I added the following symbolic link:

sudo ln -s /etc/fonts/conf.avail/69-langauge-selector-ja-jp.conf /etc/fonts/conf.d/

…and now I get beautiful Japanese fonts, but my Latin fonts are all screwed up. This continues even after moving my Midori config file, and allowing it to rebuild itself. So clearly, adding that link makes the Japanese fonts properly available, but makes them take precedence over the Latin fonts.

[Pete Zaitcev (zaitcev)]

The 0.5.0 was a while ago. The 0.5.8 on Fedora 20 seems to work fine. Bill, still having a problem?

[Billie O'Dwyer (0d-billie)]

I'll have a check and get back to you.

[Billie O'Dwyer (0d-billie)]

Still not fixed here. I'll have to check how it looks on my Ubuntu machine, but on elementary OS Luna it is still not working.