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Description
What happened?
Apple system fonts + Latin fonts + sans-serif is sufficient in Traditional Chinese, Korean, and Japanese.
Simplified Chinese fonts (e.g. Microsoft YaHei) are inappropriate, low quality, and ugly in such languages.
(especially) Windows: hiragana & katakana shape are very ugly
Any OSes: shapes of han characters are incorrect.
e.g.
Expect: 🇯🇵骨角曜約記述 🇹🇼骨角曜約記述 🇰🇷骨角曜約記述
Actual: 骨角曜約記述
(code points are the same / uses <span lang="..."> the above to switch languages)
https://heistak.github.io/your-code-displays-japanese-wrong/
https://x.com/Reputeless/status/1929847237745824043?t=zvSXJfOPxZvcRec7vqhdVg
e.g. https://blog.tomoyukim.net/entry/ovsx-vscode-extension/ (one of blogs using this theme; it doesn't modify the default fonts as of 2025-08-20; hiragana & katakana in Microsoft YaHei (Windows) are really ugly and some han shapes are wrong as Japanese kanji)
Hiragana & katakana there are really ugly (in Windows):
We need these hiragana & katakana in Japanese sites instead:
Hugo version
N/A
Theme version
3.29.0
What browsers are you seeing the problem on?
No response
More information about the browser
(especially) Windows but applied to any major OSes / any major browsers
Relevant log output
Link to Minimal Reproducible Example
https://codepen.io/tats-u/pen/jEbzxoz


