Ubuntu – Showing the correct font in Japanese

12.10fontsjapanese

I'm having a problem with Japanese characters using old/Chinese forms (神社 being the obvious examples), just as in this question:
Some applications use "archaic" character instead of modern Japanese one.

I'm using Ubuntu 12.10 and the solutions there don't seem to apply anymore.
How do you fix it in ubuntu 12.10?

Fire up terminal by

Ctrl + Alt + T

Install ttf-vlgothic by

 sudo apt-get install ttf-vlgothic

Logout and log back in if you need.

Fire up terminal by

Ctrl + Alt + T

Install ttf-vlgothic by

 sudo apt-get install ttf-vlgothic

Logout and log back in if you need.

Without manually messing with the fontconfig hierarchy, I think this just boils down to having the right subset of Japanese fonts installed.

For me, on a stock Ubuntu 12.04, installing the fonts-vlgothic Japanese package solved the problem. Could you try that?

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