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bibek22

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From: Nepal

Registered: 2015-09-10

Posts: 90

[SOLVED]How can I ensure I have font support for all characters?

I hate to see the empty glyph square thing on the screen. I stumbled upon this page and the characters corresponding to "Hello"(General greeting) under Language column just under "Bulgarian" threw at me those empty boxes.

I'm wondering how I can set up the necessary fonts.

Last edited by bibek22 (2015-11-06 15:32:22)

brebs

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Registered: 2007-04-03

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Re: [SOLVED]How can I ensure I have font support for all characters?

Then switch to a font which has a more complete character set.

Your linked page displays fine for me, using Arial.

Trilby

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Registered: 2011-11-29

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Re: [SOLVED]How can I ensure I have font support for all characters?

This also depends on what you mean by "all characters there are".  Is it really important to have every possible character covered?  I have done absolutely nothing interesting for font setup - I do install ttf-ms-fonts which helps with many websites, but that's it.  On the page you linked, the Bulgarian rows displays fine for me, but there are a handful of others that don't.

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Morn

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Registered: 2012-09-02

Posts: 886

Re: [SOLVED]How can I ensure I have font support for all characters?

Just install some fonts with comprehensive Unicode coverage. Many are available, both in the official repos and the AUR. I would recommend to start with:

pacman -S noto-fonts noto-fonts-emoji ttf-linux-libertine ttf-dejavu 

Don't forget to restart your web browser for the new fonts to take effect.

Last edited by Morn (2015-11-06 13:02:14)

bibek22

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From: Nepal

Registered: 2015-09-10

Posts: 90

Re: [SOLVED]How can I ensure I have font support for all characters?

I recently installed infinality on my system. That removed/replaced some default fonts. Maybe that was why the characters were not displayed. I searched and installed few font packs(language specific like Tibetan, Korean) from their repo.
Not that I'll "need" to see those characters or anything but when I happen to load pages with those characters, it feels inconvinient to see those empty boxes.

Reminds me of the old days when Nokia phones used to spew those same boxes for devanagari script characters. ; )

Thanks everyone for the reply!

drcouzelis

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From: Connecticut, USA

Registered: 2009-11-09

Posts: 4,092

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Re: [SOLVED]How can I ensure I have font support for all characters?

Don't forget to install ttf-indic-otf so you have the Look of Disapproval. Very important.

bibek22

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From: Nepal

Registered: 2015-09-10

Posts: 90

Re: [SOLVED]How can I ensure I have font support for all characters?

Look of Disapproval. wow. hadn't seen that before. I send you the "look of disapproval" and all you'd see is ⍻_⍻ because you don't have the right fonts. haha.