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This post was originally written by xenomorph0525 and was posted here:
http://www.ubuntu-tw.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?post_id=164272#forumpost164272
I help translate it into English and post it to this bug report.

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The file 69-language-selector-*.conf first appeared since Ubuntu 8.04 was issued. There were not any problem like Sans fonts becoming sqare characters when displayed chinese fonts before that time. It is owing to the way of  mixing Chinese and English fonts in a file  69-language-selector-zh-*.conf that the sqare fonts came into being.

It is caused by 2 main facters that Sans fonts becoming sqare characters when displayed chinese fonts:
1. the way of  mixing Chinese and English fonts in the file  69-language-selector-zh-*.conf
2. not in support of fallback function like the file  69-language-selector-zh-*.conf by some applications.

The problem should be resolved thoroughly only if removal of these two
factors. In any case we have to remove the strings including Bitstream
Vera、DejaVu from the file 69-language-selector-zh-*.conf so that other
applications will not show abnormal Chinese fonts caused by the second
factor.

After all it is so hard to control in advance how the programmers design
their software. At least the first factor is under our master control
among these two factors. Of course we should edit those programs with
known bugs in the 2nd factor, beside the first factor, either.

It must not be one kind of good setting to mix Chinese fonts and English fonts in one setting file. 
This would be regarded, by the users, as to be drawn back to normal setting ( not mixed Chinese and English fonts in one file) in case that the proposal to edit the file 69-language-selector-zh-*.conf was brought up when Ubnutu 8.04 had been releasing.

Maybe the reason why it is classified into not good solution by
somebodies should be too late, after 2 years, to be brought forward to
edit the setting. Nevertheless it is because of time point to shape the
different impression. In fact it is still a suggestion of such kind of
item as regressing back to normal setting.

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Title:
  Improvement for zh-tw fontconfig settings of language-selector