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Jellicent

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From: Berlin

Registered: 2013-09-13

Posts: 189

[SOLVED] Font issues

Hey guys, I have been an Arch user for quite some time. I have actually never had this problem, up until now, when I decided to wipe it all and install everything anew (mostly because my Windows partition was getting buggier and buggier, and it was in need of a wipe...).

Anyways, the problem is that some characters are rendered with either a) an uncorrect font or b) wrongly for some other reason. It seems to be quotation marks only from what I can tell.

I've searched for something similar to this, but I couldn't find anything. The Arch wiki wouldn't spit out anything useful, neither would the forum or ddg. Maybe I didn't use the most fitting terms, but that's because of my cluelessness.
For example, the Arch Linux channel topic: http://a.pomf.se/wobsnb.png

Actually, that's pretty much everywhere I was able to find it. Also, the heart and the, is that a ring?, are misplaced, which is probably due to the same problem as to why the quotation characters are misplaced.

Since I'm really clueless about what could cause this... I'm just gonna leave my .fonts.conf here and.. uh, I'll provide everything else, if I can.
Oh, and in case it's of any importance... my IRC application is weechat.

Thanks for reading.

Fonts I'm using are termsyn and NanumGothicCoding. (I put terminus into the font config to see if it would change anything. :/)

.fonts.conf http://sprunge.us/KIJO (This is the same I used before setting everything up anew.)

Oh, and, in my .zshrc:

export LANG="en_GB.UTF-8"

Last edited by Jellicent (2014-09-28 13:50:36)

Mindstormscreator

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Registered: 2012-07-01

Posts: 186

Re: [SOLVED] Font issues

Are you using vanilla font rendering? I use infinality bundle which greatly improves the rendering and tends to eliminate quirks like this. Unfortunately, this is the most specific answer I have.

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Jellicent

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From: Berlin

Registered: 2013-09-13

Posts: 189

Re: [SOLVED] Font issues

Are you using vanilla font rendering? I use infinality bundle which greatly improves the rendering and tends to eliminate quirks like this. Unfortunately, this is the most specific answer I have.

Thanks for your answer, unfortunately, I don't think it's got to do with rendering in that aspect. I've never used infinality, not on this setup and not on the one before.

My guess is that either something within the packages themselves has changed or that I've forgotten to install something.
Is there a way to check two lists against each other and create an output of those that are not doubled when doing so? That way I could check which packages I'm missing that I installed before, since I've got a list of my packages from my installation from before.

Last edited by Jellicent (2014-09-28 10:20:30)

drenninghoff

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Registered: 2012-11-28

Posts: 34

Re: [SOLVED] Font issues

I don't see a problem with the heart and the snowman. They look exactly like that for me. The only thing that looks weird is the apostrophe in "doesn't". What other rendering issues do you have? Can you show more examples? Does this only happen with bitmap fonts? What terminal are you using?

Jellicent

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From: Berlin

Registered: 2013-09-13

Posts: 189

Re: [SOLVED] Font issues

I don't see a problem with the heart and the snowman. They look exactly like that for me. The only thing that looks weird is the apostrophe in "doesn't". What other rendering issues do you have? Can you show more examples? Does this only happen with bitmap fonts? What terminal are you using?

I haven't found any other texts where this appears to happen. FWIW that apostrophe is probably not an apostrophe but a different character. My apostrophes work and look just fine.
I'm using termite and I don't know if it happens with other fonts since I only do you bitmap fonts.

I think the problem is that the substitute font for that character was really bad. I've installed another font (for something else) and it looks better now. It looks different but it's not so far to the right now, it's neatly placed in the centre now.

Seems like I'm missing a font from my installation before, definitely.

Pretty much solved. I just installed a bunch of fonts, one had a good single quote top character.

Can be closed.

Last edited by Jellicent (2014-09-28 13:50:25)