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#1 2016-10-04 07:43:46

daxofdeath
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[solved] Text appearing as glyphs after recent upgrade

Hi everyone,

After updating my system, I have the problem that fonts in my terminal and "code" fonts (text marked as code in markdown, for example) are displayed as wingdings/glyphs. 

It's easiest to just take a look at the problem via this screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/2o8Amo6.png

Anyone know what's going on or how to fix it?  I'm at work, so I'd like to get it fixed ASAP, but I'm having difficulty troubleshooting when everything is coming out as wingdings sad

Thanks for any help!

EDIT: it seems that vim is effected (affected?  infected?) as well.  It's safe to say this is a system-wide issue, probably with fonts.

second edit: solved.  install a monospace font as per jason's suggestion.

Last edited by daxofdeath (2016-10-04 08:35:34)

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#2 2016-10-04 07:59:25

jasonwryan
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Re: [solved] Text appearing as glyphs after recent upgrade

Search before posting. And install a monospace font.


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#3 2016-10-04 08:07:43

daxofdeath
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Re: [solved] Text appearing as glyphs after recent upgrade

jasonwryan wrote:

Search before posting. And install a monospace font.

Hi Jason,

Thanks for your response.  I did search, but I couldn't find anything - could you suggest a query that would give me good results?

edit: a bit of searching and I found these two posts (one of them by you, jason):

http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions … how-to-fix
http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions … rk-systemd

However, nothing has changed (except the console font of the arch login screen)

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#4 2016-10-04 08:19:19

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Re: [solved] Text appearing as glyphs after recent upgrade


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