Solution to "Cannot display Asian (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) characters in Google Chrome title bar, address bar and tabs 解決 Google Chrome 用戶介面無法顯示中文問題

Works on Ubuntu 14.04

1. Go to /etc/fonts/conf.d
2. Remove any of the *.conf entries for the Google Droid font (in my case 65-droid-sans-fallback.conf  65-droid-sans-fonts.conf)
   mv /etc/fonts/conf.d/65-droid-sans-fallback.conf  /etc/fonts/conf.d/65-droid-sans-fallback.conf.oldmv /etc/fonts/conf.d/65-droid-sans-fonts.conf /etc/fonts/conf.d/65-droid-sans-fallback.conf.old
3. Update fontconfig fc-cache -f -r

Reference

http://superuser.com/questions/705658/unicode-characters-cannot-be-displayed-on-chrome-tab-title-on-linux

https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=316723