[SOLVED] look of disapproval doesn't render correct glyphs

shakin · 2009-05-23 01:15:21

I am fully aware that this is the dumbest topic ever, so no need to remind me.

Anyway, I'm not having any font issues other than with the look of disapproval smiley. Eg. ಠ_ಠ (I am not sure if it'll turn out right since I copied the incorrect rendering from my system). It's supposed to look like this http://lookofdisapproval.com/ or in font form in any of the posts from this guy: http://www.reddit.com/user/look_of_disapproval/

It works on my Ubuntu system so there is obviously something I didn't do right in Arch and it's bugging me. I have checked my locale in rc.conf (en_US.utf8) and in locale.gen (en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8 and en_US ISO8859-1) and those seem ok as far as I can tell.

Thanks.

Last edited by shakin (2009-05-23 01:24:29)

shakin · 2009-05-23 01:23:41

Installing the bdf-unifont package from extra fixed it.

Now I just look like an idiot for posting the question At least it can serve as a guide for anybody else having the same problem, or who can't get various other special characters to display correctly.

skimitar · 2010-01-10 08:06:34

Just to demonstrate that no question is silly, I was looking for exactly this - how to display ಠ_ಠ

catatafish · 2010-02-26 00:27:37

I've dealt with ಠ_ಠ every since I switched to arch. When I stumbled upon an ascii giraffe with the look of disapproval for eyes, I could settle for ಠ_ಠ no longer. Thanks for the solution shakin. Sorry to bump such an old thread.

karper · 2010-03-18 06:59:34

I stumbled on this thread while trying to get the lod to show. I *had* installed bdf-unifont and was surprised that I couldn't see it. Turns out *uninstalling* that package fixed it for me. o.O

Last edited by karper (2010-03-18 07:00:06)

shamanstk · 2010-04-30 12:02:54

neither solution solved it for me. i have horrible unicode support

JohnnyRogers · 2010-05-02 15:20:31

shamanstk wrote:

neither solution solved it for me. i have horrible unicode support

What does your fonts.conf look like?

shamanstk · 2010-05-04 14:07:46

I have the default fonts.conf and my local.conf just has antialias and rgb on. All my fonts were installed with pacman.

JohnnyRogers · 2010-05-04 17:14:37

Note: I'm pretty noobish myself, but, for whatever reason, my .fonts.conf has to only have this in it for the LOD to work:

<match target="font">
    <edit name="autohint" mode="assign">
      <bool>true</bool>
    </edit>
</match>

I've tried putting that in other setups, but it seems to need to be by itself. Sorry I can't help more.

shamanstk · 2010-05-09 23:14:59

.fonts.conf think doesn't change anything. Its already in my local.conf. Whats odd is that it shows in firefox and chromium in the address bar and the tab, but not on the web page. On the web page i just get the unicode place holder

demizer · 2010-05-10 05:49:06

I tried everything above as well, still not working for me. I also added the stuff to locale.gen, still didn't work. I must have skipped a step in the install process. This really sucks.

demizer · 2010-05-14 03:04:10

Good news. Finally figured out how to fix this. It may be a little freedom hating though, so be warned! The character used to display this is described here with more information here (this last page will definitely tell you if you fixed the problem since it uses the encoding.) To fix it, simply google "tunga.ttf" to get the font, and install it into

~/.fonts

and use

fc-cache

to regenerate the cache. Then simply restart x. To make sure the font is detected properly, use

fc-list | sed s,:.*,, | sort -u

and now you can see the look of disapproval. Also note, I tried installing the indic fonts, but they did not work.

Good luck.

Last edited by demizer (2010-05-14 03:04:52)

mann138 · 2010-05-24 03:43:20

well I had the same issue some months ago, can't remember how I just got here anyways, but in my arch I installed this to see ಠ_ಠ

http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=14554 ---> it's lohit fonts, comes with kannada, the font needed for ಠ_ಠ

brebs · 2010-05-24 04:24:39

demizer wrote:

Then simply restart x

There is no need to restart xorg. Restart the apps you want to use the font in.

shamanstk · 2010-06-09 00:08:54

thanks mann138! finally! reddit makes sense again

pants · 2010-06-13 05:27:19

Result: look of extreme discomfort

teratomata · 2010-06-13 07:43:35

Thank You!!!

vexxor · 2010-06-13 09:48:44

this is great! i can see the look of disapproval again! it has always bothered me, but not enough to act on it. Ignoring it now with the answer right in front of me would be just foolish

edit: the lohit-fonts package from AUR presents a more authentic experience

Last edited by vexxor (2010-06-13 10:09:53)

robrene · 2010-06-13 10:33:27

I only installed ttf-indic-otf from extra, and it shows up like this now. Seems pretty good (unlike the one pants posted). The only downside is that theres a bunch of fonts in my list now that look the same (because they inherit the symbols from Sans for normal western text). I'd prefer to have one font that I can hide in the list, that only contains this symbol.

sploit · 2011-12-05 14:46:14

shakin wrote:

Installing the bdf-unifont package from extra fixed it.
Now I just look like an idiot for posting the question At least it can serve as a guide for anybody else having the same problem, or who can't get various other special characters to display correctly.

I don't know how I stumbled upon this thread, I think the title intregued me one way or another. I do know that I found this problem to trivial to spend time on when it first occured to me that I couldn't render this marvelous meme. Anyway, thanx for solving a lazy mans problem

fsckd · 2011-12-05 16:40:40

sploit, please don't necro-bump. Please do read our forum rules.
Closing.

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#1 2009-05-23 01:15:21

[SOLVED] look of disapproval doesn't render correct glyphs

#2 2009-05-23 01:23:41

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#3 2010-01-10 08:06:34

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#4 2010-02-26 00:27:37

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#5 2010-03-18 06:59:34

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