Chinese domination on my browser

[FinancialWar]

my web browser (Google Chrome) even with encoding set to Japanese, can not seem to display some of the Japanese Kanji variants instead I get simplified Chinese Hanzi, even though in the drop down box shows Japanese.

for example

I type ぐたい, I get 具体 (Japanese 具 is not connected)

はいいろ＞灰色 (灰 is not Japanese)
ちょく＞直 (not Japanese)
うつわ＞器 (犬 instead of 大）



in other situations where there are the Kanji is different from it's corresponding Simplified Hanzi, the browser shows correct Kanji version and not the Simplified Hanzi.

あるく＞歩く and not the Chinese 步
せんそう＞戦争 and not the Chinese 战争

I tried on IE as well, same thing. Are you experiencing this issue?

 

[nekojita]

This is because the unicode code points for some of these kanji/hanzi are set to the same thing (yeah, it's a hassle).
What are the fonts that you're set to use?

In Firefox it's under tools--> options --> content then "advanced" and force it to use an appropriate font (try MS PMincho or one of the Japanese fonts listed here: List of CJK fonts - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ) for Japanese pages.
For Chrome the settings seem to be listed here: Adjust fonts, languages, and encodings - Google Chrome Help

That should work. If it's still having trouble after that, (presuming you aren't also using Chinese on that computer), I would go as far as uninstalling the Chinese fonts.