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Llama

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From: St.-Petersburg, Russia

Registered: 2008-03-03

Posts: 1,379

Yen instead of backslash

Hi,

Once upon a time I mishandled my system fonts.I've been following a lot of useful advice, but things are still not quite right. The trouble is really systemwide, but the most obvious issue is HTML rendering in Firefox. Notably, I've got Yen symbol instead of the backslash, Greek delta instead of >> (as in Index>>Newbie Corner>>Post new topic), Greek mu instead of (n-dash?) (as in Dansk-English-Espanol... in Archwiki).

I understand that Yen/backslash, as well as other anomalies, is encoding-dependent, but I use strictly en_US.UTF-8.

I suspect (almost sure) that some of my fonts are  simply broken or uninstalled. Unfortunately I can't find any troubleshooting tools of procedures relevant to my case. Any suggestion is welcome.

dioltas

Member

Registered: 2009-06-03

Posts: 44

Re: Yen instead of backslash

Maybe check your LOCALE option in /etc/rc.conf.

Mine is:
LOCALE="en_GB.utf8"

Could it be your keyboard map? It it things you type or just the way things are displayed?

You could try "setxkbmap gb" or "setxkbmap us" or something.

Maybe check your installed fonts by doing something like:

$ pacman -Q | grep ttf
sdl_ttf 2.0.10-1
ttf-bitstream-vera 1.10-7
ttf-dejavu 2.33-1
ttf-freefont 20100919-1
ttf-ms-fonts 2.0-8
ttf-raghu 1.0-1

Maybe these pages might be of some help:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fonts
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Font_Configuration

I don't really know too much about fonts.

Last edited by dioltas (2011-06-16 13:26:11)

Senselessfull

Member

Registered: 2014-06-03

Posts: 8

Re: Yen instead of backslash

For anyone who still has this problem:

It is caused by bad fonts. Change your system font to a normal basic one and you should be good to go.

In my case the ttf-vista-fonts package had bad fonts in it, but that might just be my problem.
Symlinked win8.1 fonts seem to be working just marvelous.

jasonwryan

Anarchist

From: .nz

Registered: 2009-05-09

Posts: 30,426

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Re: Yen instead of backslash

Please don't necrobump: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fo … Bumping.27

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