Mozilla, japanese fonts

[Christopher Swingley <cswingle@iarc.uaf.edu>]

Greetings,

I'm having an issue with the mozilla-xft package.  Japanese characters 
(like those on http://www.yahoo.co.jp/) show up as boxes with the 
unicode numbers inside, rather than as japanese characters like they did 
before I installed mozilla-xft.  I thought it might have to do with 
getting true type fonts for Japanese, but I installed 
ttf-xtt-wadalab-gothic, ttf-xtt-watanabe-mincho, and 
ttf-xwatanabe-mincho (the ttf- results of 'apt-cache search japanese | 
grep fonts').

No change in mozilla, even after an X restart.  'xlsfonts' shows them:

    $ xlsfonts | grep xwatanabe
    -xwatanabe-mincho-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1
    -xwatanabe-mincho-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-jisx0201.1976-0
    -xwatanabe-mincho-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-jisx0208.1983-0

I'm loading these truetype fonts via 

    FontPath "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType"

in my /etc/X11/XF86Config-4.

I think this is the same as bug 184556 (mozilla-xft display some chinese 
in disorder), but there is no real solution in the comments (the last 
comment is "In mozilla 1.3 of debian sid package , it can display 
chinese correctly."

Not for me.  mozilla-browser, -psm, -xft is 1.3-4.

Any thoughts or hints?  Does this have something to do with fontconfig?  
Help!

Thanks,

Chris
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