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dffx

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Registered: 2011-05-02

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Bullets showing up as hearts in LXDE and XFCE?

I'm running into a super strange issue that I haven't been able to find any information on.

Basically, when I'm in LXDE or XFCE, whenever I go to a website or any place where I put in a password and it shows up corresponding bullets in lieu of the password characters (for example, logging into GMail, when typing my password) it shows heart symbols, not the bullets it normally does.

Oddly, when in Gnome this isn't the case and the bullets show up as proper bullets, not as hearts. I'm not sure when this issue began, because I was running Gnome for so longer, ever since I first installed Arch on this laptop. I haven't had the problem on my desktop.

I'm not even sure where to begin figuring this out. I've got my console set to UTF-8.

You can see it in this screenshot:

Any help would be fantastic. It's not a functional thing, but it's incredibly annoying.

EDIT: Also, fyi, U+2202 prints a bullet point as it should, and this issue occurs in all browsers on all websites in LXDE and XFCE (but not Gnome, haven't tried KDE)

Last edited by dffx (2012-02-01 21:22:27)

noMaster

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Re: Bullets showing up as hearts in LXDE and XFCE?

Maybe problem is a font? Which one for GNOME and for LXDE?

litemotiv

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Re: Bullets showing up as hearts in LXDE and XFCE?

I don't see a problem, spread the love!

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David Batson

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Registered: 2011-10-13

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Re: Bullets showing up as hearts in LXDE and XFCE?

Your font is not using the correct character set or code page.  You might try changing the encoding for your chosen font (or using a different font).

Some links that may help explain...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_A … _confusion

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Character_sets

http://www.csee.umbc.edu/portal/help/or … 89/ch3.htm

dffx

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Registered: 2011-05-02

Posts: 15

Re: Bullets showing up as hearts in LXDE and XFCE?

Your font is not using the correct character set or code page.  You might try changing the encoding for your chosen font (or using a different font).

Some links that may help explain...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_A … _confusion

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Character_sets

http://www.csee.umbc.edu/portal/help/or … 89/ch3.htm

How would one change this? My rc.conf is set as:

LOCALE="en_US.UTF-8"
DAEMON_LOCALE="yes"
HARDWARECLOCK="UTC"

So this should have the OS using UTF-8, correct?

I've set my fonts in obconf to Liberation Sans, instead of simply sans.

Also interesting, in Chromium I do not get the hearts, but I get them in every Mozilla application, as well as in most other applications that accept passwords (encryption keys in wicd network manager, for instance).

Is it something to do with GTK?

desm0tes

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Registered: 2012-02-04

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Re: Bullets showing up as hearts in LXDE and XFCE?

I agree with litemotiv:
Make hearts, not bullets!

But if you are true ganxta, just open obconf and choose another font than Liberation Sans - and the problem will most likely be gone.
It's neither bug, nor feature, it's just different encodings used...

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dffx

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Registered: 2011-05-02

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Re: Bullets showing up as hearts in LXDE and XFCE?

I agree with litemotiv:
Make hearts, not bullets!

But if you are true ganxta, just open obconf and choose another font than Liberation Sans - and the problem will most likely be gone.
It's neither bug, nor feature, it's just different encodings used...

I got that, that it's not a bug or a feature. Just really annoying me and I can't figure out, for the life of me, how to get rid of it, haha.

I'll give DejaVu Sans a shot, see if it fixes it. Thanks!

EDIT: Nope, changing to DejaVu did not change the hearts that are showing up.

How would I go about changing the encoding? Would that be changing the LOCALE option on rc.conf?

Last edited by dffx (2012-02-05 06:22:09)

desm0tes

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Re: Bullets showing up as hearts in LXDE and XFCE?

Run

locale

to check, what locales are in use.

I'd recommend
en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8   [which is obvioulsy currently in use]
and
en_US ISO-8859-1

Then run

locale-gen

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dffx

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Registered: 2011-05-02

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Re: Bullets showing up as hearts in LXDE and XFCE?

Still not sure what the specific issue was, but I made a new user and that user isn't having the issue. So it's a user-level configuration issue, I guess. If I figure it out I'll update this thread in the outside chance that anyone else might have this odd issue.