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A. I don't know much about CJK fonts. I'm just spitballing. I am also half asleep.
B. It depends where the font is displayed. As you probably know, different Japanese, Korean and Chinese characters, which share history and look similar, share one unicode codepoint, see this Wikipedia article. Which specific glyph is shown is decided by some variable that specifies in what language the text is written:
lang
parameter of the website. You can't change this easily.Well, in Firefox's settings there's an option to use my own fonts instead of the web site, so I don't think it's related to anything like that, but rather some setting within the OS, related to locale config files.