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Ever since installing Gutsy, I’ve noticed the Chinese fonts in FireFox look exceptionally ugly- like this:

Using Google, I found the solution posted here. Essentially, it’s a four-step solution:

1. fontconfig-voodoo -f -s zh_CN
2. sudo vi /usr/share/language-selector/fontconfig/zh_CN

• move the western font above the Chinese fonts
• move the “AR PL ZenKai Uni” font above the other Chinese fonts
• lower the use of ugly aliased fonts below a certain pixel size- look for the keyword “pixelsize“ in the file