Xft/Fontconfig has problems in rendering CJK bold strings.. Bold and normal strings have same shape.. and here''s the patch.. http://www.kde.gr.jp/~akito/patch/fcpackage/fontconfig-2/2.2.0/fontconfig-2.2.0-fix-cjk-20030426.diff http://www.kde.gr.jp/~akito/patch/fcpackage/2_1/fcpackage.2_1-fontconfig-1.0.2-fix-cjk-20030426.diff I apply that patch to fontconfig-2.2.1 xft-2.0.1 and in XFree-4.3.0 It works greatly.. I''d like to see a next distribution applied the patches.