MikTex CJK Windows font issue

Question

I usually use the MS Mincho font for doing Japanese stuff. However, with XeLatex the following creates gobbledegook:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{xeCJK}
% Font should be available on windows
\setCJKmainfont{MS Mincho}

\begin{document}
見た
\end{document}

But when I change out the "MS Mincho" for "SimSun" it renders perfectly fine. I have MS Mincho installed on my computer, so why can't I use it?

Answer 1

This mailing list message seems to deal with the same issue, and it is apparently caused by the presence of multiple versions of the MS Mincho font (both .ttc and .ttf files). You should be able to see the files if you open a command prompt in C:\Windows\Fonts and write dir msmincho*. It should be safe to delete the .ttf version, and that should fix your problem.

This bug may be MikTeX-specific; I have both of those files, but I use TeX Live, and your example compiles as expected for me. (In fairness, however, I just updated everything a few hours ago, so you should probably try that first.)