I am learning Japanese and I have a problem with the default font used by Ubuntu. I would like to learn the standard kanji writing and not a fancy or smart way of writing them...
I already had a similar problem before with the 12.04. I was able to solve it with the solution in this post: Showing the correct font in Japanese, i.e., installing the package ttf-vlgothic.
Since I upgrade to the 14.04, I noticed again that some characters are not correct, but it is not as obvious as before. The solution presented before (sudo apt-get install ttf-vlgothic) does not work anymore because ttf-vlgothic was removed from the sources of the 14.04 (why?)... Apparently, Ubuntu 14.04 uses fonts-vlgothic by default, but some new characters are wrongly written. For example, the kanji 究 is supposed to be written with its 5th stroke being "square" as it is shown in http://jiten.go-kanken.com/kanji/272.html, but by default in Ubuntu the 5th stroke is straight, a little like the 4th.
Why was ttf-vlgothic removed? Is it a bug? And also, ttf-vlgothic should be used by default, as it is the one corresponding to the current standard in Japan. (Should I report a bug?)
Anyway, does someone have a solution? Thanks!
Edit: what I said about fonts-vlgothic is wrong, I removed this package and replaced it with a standard font, and I still have the problem, so it's another package/font???