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Why can't my Chromium display Japanese characters?

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Mar 15, 202613940 views
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I use Chromium, but it can't display Japanese characters, as you can see in the picture. Left is firefox, as you can see, it displayes the characters correctly. Chromium is on the right. This is Fedora 13, with all browsers and fonts installed from Repositories.

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Fix for: Why can't my Chromium display Japanese characters?

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There is a known problem - Issue 7160: Wrong font for Japanese characters in English language Chrome, dating from January 2008 but unfixed until today. Only workarounds contributed by users are available, none of which is perfect and some contradict…

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