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morphheus

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Registered: 2014-08-01

Posts: 12

[SOLVED] Can't display extended unicode

Hello,

My arch install cannot render extended unicode characters. Example:
http://i.imgur.com/3VNpkkI.png

I first though it was a font issue, but this website tells me that I have many, many fonts that should display that character:
http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode … %2B0CA0%29

It renders nowhere on my system. Not on firefox, not on terminal, not on gedit, nothing. I am sure it is not a font issue, as I have tried Arial, Times New Roman, DejaVu sans and other that are suppsed to have extended Unicode support.

Here is the output of locale:

[03:46:05 ~]$ locale
LANG=en_CA.utf8
LC_CTYPE="en_CA.utf8"
LC_NUMERIC=en_CA.utf8
LC_TIME=en_CA.utf8
LC_COLLATE="en_CA.utf8"
LC_MONETARY=en_CA.utf8
LC_MESSAGES="en_CA.utf8"
LC_PAPER=en_CA.utf8
LC_NAME="en_CA.utf8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_CA.utf8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_CA.utf8"
LC_MEASUREMENT=en_CA.utf8
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_CA.utf8"
LC_ALL=

Thoughts?

Last edited by morphheus (2014-08-28 09:59:52)

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: [SOLVED] Can't display extended unicode

Try https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fonts#Indic

ttf-indic-otf - Indic OpenType Fonts collection (containing ttf-freebanglafont)
    (This one contains a "look of disapproval" that might be more to your liking than the bdf-unifont one mentioned elsewhere in this document)

morphheus

Member

Registered: 2014-08-01

Posts: 12

Re: [SOLVED] Can't display extended unicode

Yep, neither packages were installed.