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#1 2016-09-15 13:35:38

mdbdb
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Registered: 2016-09-15
Posts: 2

[SOLVED] Strange display of some fonts in several apps

I updated my system a few weeks ago and started to see some strange
fonts appear in a few applications like Firefox, chromium and dmenu.

For example:

In chromium/firefox, stack overflow and other sites that use code blocks:
http://imgur.com/a/PtRZ6
http://imgur.com/a/EoOYR

In dmenu:
http://imgur.com/a/NTnfM

This doesn't happen in tor-browser (I tried for comparison).

I did not find relevant help in the Font and Fontconfig wiki and on Google
so. I suspect some standard font or something was corrupted or replaced,
but I wouldn't really know where to start looking.

I wonder if somebody knows where the problem might be coming from
and/or where I should look to find the culprit.

Last edited by mdbdb (2016-09-15 13:43:56)

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#2 2016-09-15 13:38:45

headkase
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Registered: 2011-12-06
Posts: 1,975

Re: [SOLVED] Strange display of some fonts in several apps

Try to install ttf-dejavu and ttf-droid.

Sometimes it's just a matter of your system not having fallback glyphs and those two fonts provide them.

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#3 2016-09-15 13:43:05

mdbdb
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Registered: 2016-09-15
Posts: 2

Re: [SOLVED] Strange display of some fonts in several apps

headkase wrote:

Try to install ttf-dejavu and ttf-droid.

Sometimes it's just a matter of your system not having fallback glyphs and those two fonts provide them.

Welp, that was easier than I thought. Thank you very much, marking as solved.

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#4 2016-09-15 13:45:26

headkase
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Registered: 2011-12-06
Posts: 1,975

Re: [SOLVED] Strange display of some fonts in several apps

Right on, you're welcome.  smile

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