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evan-hon

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[Solved]Application font display error

As shown,why my fonts display the square with some number?

the situation picture：
https://s1.ax1x.com/2020/06/10/tTh15n.png

Last edited by evan-hon (2020-06-10 16:45:54)

Trilby

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Re: [Solved]Application font display error

Please remove the large image and see our community guidelines.

What fonts do you have installed?  What's the output of `fc-match monospace`? What are your locale settings? (output of `localectl` and `locale -a`).

EDIT: After decoding the missing symbols, I'd suspect you just need to install a monospace font.

Last edited by Trilby (2020-06-10 11:23:13)

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evan-hon

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Re: [Solved]Application font display error

sorry,I didn't pay attention that I couldn't send a big picture,I will delete the picture later.

the fc-match monospace output:

courR12-ISO8859-1.pcf.gz:"Adobe Courier" "Regular"

the locale -a output:

c
en_US.utf8
POSIX
zh_CN.utf8

the localectl output:

System Locale:LANG=en_US.UTF-8
VC keymap:n/a
X11 Layout:n/a

Last edited by evan-hon (2020-06-10 11:35:21)

adamss

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Re: [Solved]Application font display error

do you have the package `noto-fonts`
if not install it

pacman -S noto-fonts

Edit: oh I can see that the font render on the rest of the UI so you probably already have a font like noto

you don't need to install noto

Last edited by adamss (2020-06-10 11:47:29)

evan-hon

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Re: [Solved]Application font display error

Yes, I had installed noto-fonts.

seth

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Re: [Solved]Application font display error

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=248032

Install some non-pcf monospace font (you want Source Code Pro, though MS new monospace font "cascadia code", iirc. looks promising as well) and select that as your monospace default, eg.  ~/.config/fontconfig/conf.d/99-monospace.conf

<?xml version="1.0"?><!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
<fontconfig>
    <alias>
        <family>monospace</family>
        <prefer><family>Source Code Pro</family></prefer>
    </alias>
</fontconfig>

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evan-hon

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Registered: 2020-05-15

Posts: 7

Re: [Solved]Application font display error

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=248032

Install some non-pcf monospace font (you want Source Code Pro, though MS new monospace font "cascadia code", iirc. looks promising as well) and select that as your monospace default, eg.  ~/.config/fontconfig/conf.d/99-monospace.conf

<?xml version="1.0"?><!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
<fontconfig>
    <alias>
        <family>monospace</family>
        <prefer><family>Source Code Pro</family></prefer>
    </alias>
</fontconfig>

thank you very much!
As you say,I solve my problem.

seth

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Re: [Solved]Application font display error

Great.
Please always remember to mark resolved threads by editing your initial posts subject - so others will know that there's no task left, but maybe a solution to find.
Thanks.

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