Trouble using the "MS Mincho" and "MS Gothic" fonts

[daihard]

Hi.

I wonder what I'm doing wrong here. I've been trying to use these two TrueType fonts, "MS Mincho" and "MS Gothic," with no success for the last several hours. I need your help.

First, I added the font files (MSMINCHO.TTF and MSGOTHIC.TTF) to the directory called "/usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts". Then I ran the following command to rebuild the font cache.

$ sudo fc-cache -f -v

It said the operation succeeded and created ~/.fonts.conf among other things. I googled around and came to the conclusion that modifying the file as follows would do the trick.

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
<fontconfig>

 <alias>
 <family>serif</family>
 <prefer>
 <family>DejaVu Serif</family>
 <family>MS Mincho</family> 
 </prefer>
 </alias>

 <alias>
 <family>sans-serif</family>
 <prefer>
 <family>DejaVu Sans</family>
 <family>MS Gothic</family>
 </prefer>
 </alias>

 <alias>
 <family>monospace</family>
 <prefer>
 <family>DejaVu Sans Mono</family>
 <family>MS Gothic</family>
 </prefer>
 </alias>

 <match target="font" >
 <edit mode="assign" name="embeddedbitmap" >
 <bool>false</bool>
 </edit>
 </match>

 <match target="font" >
 <edit mode="assign" name="rgba" >
  <const>rgb</const>
 </edit>
 </match>
 <match target="font" >
 <edit mode="assign" name="hinting" >
  <bool>true</bool>
 </edit>
 </match>
 <match target="font" >
 <edit mode="assign" name="hintstyle" >
  <const>hintfull</const>
 </edit>
 </match>
 <match target="font" >
 <edit mode="assign" name="antialias" >
  <bool>true</bool>
 </edit>
 </match>
</fontconfig>

However, the Japanese font renders horrible on applications like Firefox and Kontact.

If I replace "MS Mincho" and "MS Gothic" with "Sazanami Mincho" and "Sazanami Gothic," which I have installed also, then they come up rather well. Which tells me the format of my ~/.fonts.conf should be correct. Or not? I dunno...

Any help would be appreciated!

Dai