Just an uninteresting side note, setting font-family to either 'Monospace' or monospace in the test case above shows a very proportional font for ja. This should be a separate report, but just in case I forget:
$ LC_ALL='ja_JP.UTF-8' fc-match 'Monospace' DroidSansFallbackFull.ttf: "Droid Sans Fallback" "Regular" ** Summary changed: - Awful system-wise generic selection for CJK + Awful generic selection for zh in Firefox -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1595414 Title: Awful generic selection for zh in Firefox To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fonts-arphic-ukai/+bug/1595414/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs