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#1 2017-08-10 00:38:08

sherrellbc
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Registered: 2014-05-26
Posts: 112

[SOLVED] Some man-page fonts display "?"

This apparently is a very common issue considering the number of time it has been posted on this forum over the years. Notably:

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=149343
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=170826

However, my case seems to be isolated to only my terminal emulator (konsole); my browser seems unaffected, though perhaps I just have not encountered these fonts. This is what I am seeing: http://imgur.com/a/o6WVc. I have tried changing the font selection within konsole, but none thus far have properly displayed these missing characters. The most important observation, I think, is that the characters will properly display if I use a system tty without starting a graphical session.

The output of `locale` on my machine is far less complete than what others are posting, though I have never encountered this problem before by directly following the instructions on the beginner wiki.

$locale
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE=
LC_NUMERIC=
LC_TIME=
LC_COLLATE=
LC_MONETARY=
LC_MESSAGES=
LC_PAPER=
LC_NAME=
LC_ADDRESS=
LC_TELEPHONE=
LC_MEASUREMENT=
LC_IDENTIFICATION=
LC_ALL=

Also, I do have an extra font package installed.

$ pacman -Qe | grep -E "font|ttf"
ttf-dejavu 2.37-1
xorg-font-util 1.3.1-1
xorg-fonts-100dpi 1.0.3-3
xorg-fonts-75dpi 1.0.3-3
xorg-fonts-encodings 1.0.4-4
xorg-mkfontdir 1.0.7-8
xorg-mkfontscale 1.1.2-1

Last edited by sherrellbc (2017-08-10 01:33:19)

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#2 2017-08-10 01:20:30

ronw
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Registered: 2013-07-02
Posts: 50

Re: [SOLVED] Some man-page fonts display "?"

I had the same problem that started recently. Fixed it by editing each Konsole profile, and on the Advanced tab, selecting Unicode > UTF-8 for character encoding.

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#3 2017-08-10 01:32:33

sherrellbc
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Registered: 2014-05-26
Posts: 112

Re: [SOLVED] Some man-page fonts display "?"

ronw wrote:

I had the same problem that started recently. Fixed it by editing each Konsole profile, and on the Advanced tab, selecting Unicode > UTF-8 for character encoding.

This was it. I missed this setting on the advanced tab. Thanks.

Last edited by sherrellbc (2017-08-10 01:32:44)

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#4 2017-08-10 07:29:45

seth
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Registered: 2012-09-03
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