Chromium 110.0.5481.177 - some non-Latin text not displaying

backstreet.rocky · 2023-02-26 00:16:31

I'm using a fresh install of Chromium from pacman. I visit https://wikipedia.org, where the system sans-serif font should be used, and I see the characteristic rectangles of absent Unicode characters. The font settings on the browser's first launch defaulted to "Custom" across the serif, sans-serif, and math fonts, although the monospace font was set to "Monospace".

I believe those fonts are in the Liberation superfamily. I read about the Liberation fonts on Wikipedia, and learned that they only support the Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic alphabets. This would account for the specific missing glyphs.

The Croscore fonts seem designed for more international use, so I set the default fonts to the respective Croscore ones, but in those fonts as well I see the same boxes.

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Trilby · 2023-02-26 00:51:24

You're missing fonts for Japanese, Persian, and Chinese. Would you be able to read these if the glyphs were there? If so, install fonts for those language (groups):

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Fonts# … in_scripts

FWIW: DejaVu has very good unicode coverage and is one of the first fonts I install and it coincidentally covers Persian glyphs so on the same wikipedia page I only see blocks for the Chinese and Japanese entries.

EDIT: for a pre-emptive answer to a likely next question:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/347 … ode-glyphs

Last edited by Trilby (2023-02-26 00:59:50)

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#1 2023-02-26 00:16:31

Chromium 110.0.5481.177 - some non-Latin text not displaying

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Re: Chromium 110.0.5481.177 - some non-Latin text not displaying

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