I reported this upstream to https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7429 This will help with other distributions as well.
There is an effort to provide more precise configuration options to fontconfig that can solve the generic font hiding issue. For example, it would be easy to say that the CJK glyphs in Freefonts must not be used. -- Chinese menu font mis-aligned/garbled https://launchpad.net/bugs/36358 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
