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pratyushmittal

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Indic fonts not showing only in Google Chrome

I have installed the infinality-bundle-fonts. Thus unicode characters show up well in Firefox and other applications. But (indic) fonts are still not shown in Google Chrome.

Firefox | Chrome

I have tried re-installing Google Chrome.

# fc-match :lang=hi
NotoSansDevanagari-Regular.ttf: "Noto Sans" "Regular

ondoho

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Re: Indic fonts not showing only in Google Chrome

where's that code snippet from?

from your scrots i see that ff and chrome are using different fonts.

why are you not using chromium? chrome is google proprietary, chromium is foss.

have you checked the wiki (the entry for chrome redirects to chromium. i suppose this means the setup is the same)?

pratyushmittal

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Re: Indic fonts not showing only in Google Chrome

where's that code snippet from?

The snippet to check the font was from infinality thread

from your scrots i see that ff and chrome are using different fonts.

Yeah, you are right. Chrome was using windows fonts by default and had not imported the default system-font settings.

I updated the default fonts in Chrome from:

Settings >> Advanced Settings >> Web Content >> Customize fonts

why are you not using chromium? chrome is google proprietary, chromium is foss.

I have been using Chrome mainly due to the PDF and flash integration. But after your post I checked the Arch Wiki which provided the workarounds for (better) PDF integration.

have you checked the wiki (the entry for chrome redirects to chromium. i suppose this means the setup is the same)?

I re-went through the Infinality and Chromium wikis and installations. I also installed a few additional fonts. One of them seems to have solved the problem and I can view the indic fonts now.

Thanks for the leads, they were helpful.

Last edited by pratyushmittal (2013-12-20 19:20:56)

ondoho

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Re: Indic fonts not showing only in Google Chrome

glad to hear.
enjoy arch linux!