[SOLVED] Korean characters not showing up correctly in Firefox

redshoe · 2020-01-25 01:46:57

I don't exactly know when it started but it's been about 2 months since this happened.

Korean characters gets mushed up when I type on search bar (first picture), and it looks the same on the tab (second picture)

https://ibb.co/xC9PBD7
https://ibb.co/s6cGMZp

Does anyone have this problem?

Updates didn't fix the problem either... What should I do?

Last edited by redshoe (2020-01-25 15:56:26)

seth · 2020-01-25 08:30:39

It looks like the text tries to be vertical. Do you use and add-on or userstyle that might to "enforce" this and accidentally bleeds into the GUI (which I believe is css controlled for firefox as well and afaiu you don't have this problem w/ eg. korean text in "regular" gtk or Qt applications? What about chromium?)

Ropid · 2020-01-25 10:30:11

Things seem to work fine for me here.

I would try to see what happens when you create a second, new Firefox profile. Are the problems still there in that new profile? To create and switch between profiles, you start Firefox with "firefox -P" from a terminal window. It will then show a profile manager window.

redshoe · 2020-01-25 14:07:56

seth wrote:

It looks like the text tries to be vertical. Do you use and add-on or userstyle that might to "enforce" this and accidentally bleeds into the GUI (which I believe is css controlled for firefox as well and afaiu you don't have this problem w/ eg. korean text in "regular" gtk or Qt applications? What about chromium?)

No. I don't use any add-on or userstyle to enforce the letters to be vertical. When vowels and consonants are not combined, they show up fine. It only happens when they are together making the complete letter like the pic below in the link.

https://ibb.co/FBWbYnv

redshoe · 2020-01-25 14:09:16

Ropid wrote:

Things seem to work fine for me here.
I would try to see what happens when you create a second, new Firefox profile. Are the problems still there in that new profile? To create and switch between profiles, you start Firefox with "firefox -P" from a terminal window. It will then show a profile manager window.

I just tried creating new profile and it was same.... Could this be the problem of language input method? I am using ibus-hangul.

seth · 2020-01-25 14:42:58

I don't thing this is ibus related. What font do you use for the FF GUI? What if you change it to the one used in the titlebar? (They're not the same, see eg. the "l")

redshoe · 2020-01-25 15:39:56

I am using NanumGothic for both system and firefox. I did change it to different fonts and it's still making the same problem....

seth · 2020-01-25 15:54:45

Not for the latin glyphs, so I assume it's configured as cjk substitute, but eg. noto would bring it's own cjk (if the font is installed)
The font dialog in FF doesn't matter as it only affects the default fonts for web pages, not the GUI.

What's the output of "fc-match sans"?

redshoe · 2020-01-25 15:56:00

I found the problem. It was CJK package "wqy-microhei" that was causing the problem. After removing the package everything looks fine now.

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#1 2020-01-25 01:46:57

[SOLVED] Korean characters not showing up correctly in Firefox

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