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asdfiex

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Registered: 2015-12-15

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[SOLVED] Strange font rendered on browsers pages after upgrade

Weird triangles, scissors, stars, crosses. Where all of this came from?
My default font as I see in Firefox's preferences is set to Default (Noto Sans). 
Querying pacman I found that noto-fonts package version 20180322-1 is installed.
Some ideas?

Later edit: Same problem using Chromium.

Last edited by asdfiex (2018-07-09 03:00:17)

loqs

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Registered: 2014-03-06

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Re: [SOLVED] Strange font rendered on browsers pages after upgrade

Right click the element that is displaying the symbols -> inspect element -> fonts panel on the bottom right -> what font is it using?
Edit:
Did you enable the three config files for noto-fonts?

Last edited by loqs (2018-07-08 16:31:28)

asdfiex

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Re: [SOLVED] Strange font rendered on browsers pages after upgrade

D050000L font.

No. A hint for those three config files? Where I can find them?

Last edited by asdfiex (2018-07-08 16:47:01)

loqs

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Re: [SOLVED] Strange font rendered on browsers pages after upgrade

Font_configuration#Presets
Edit:
If you go into firefox menu -> preferences -> general -> Fonts and Colors -> Advanced you could also set the Monospace font there.
Setting system wide a preferred serif, sans-serif and monospace font through fontconfig should fix the issue for all applications using fontconfig.

Last edited by loqs (2018-07-08 16:59:11)

asdfiex

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From: Eastern Europe

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Re: [SOLVED] Strange font rendered on browsers pages after upgrade

Putting an eye on /etc/fonts/fonts.conf I've seen that monospace family it's in the first match tag.
fc-match monospace command returned this alien font D050000L.otf: "D050000L" "Regular" so I was thinking, yes, I should install something else.
Did a sync on the beautiful ttf-freefont, happily there was an overwrite under the hood God knows where and now things are eyes blessing.
Thank you for your answers!

Last edited by asdfiex (2018-07-09 03:04:03)