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maboleth

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Registered: 2020-01-03

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[solved] Some fonts seem missing in Firefox?

Some exotic fonts like Khmer and similar are missing and are instead shown as square symbols. Sometimes I don't even know what language is it exactly, as I have those square shapes shown.

I kind of thought that Unicode provided it all. Is there any fonts package that fulfills this for Firefox? I hope I don't have to install every font for every foreign language...

Last edited by maboleth (2020-03-16 20:38:08)

V1del

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Re: [solved] Some fonts seem missing in Firefox?

Just because Unicode theoretically means that every code point can be handled, you still need fonts that actually provide a glyph...

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fo … in_scripts

If you want something uniform, install fonts that cover a large amount of glyphs. Off the top of my head the noto family has the explicit goal of covering nearly everything feasible.

Last edited by V1del (2020-03-16 19:22:01)

maboleth

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Re: [solved] Some fonts seem missing in Firefox?

Thanks! Noto fonts did it wonderfully! :-)

Last edited by maboleth (2020-03-16 20:37:46)