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Hello, I have a weird problem: some programs (firefox and whatsdesk, since I've noticed), don't show the text written in a particular font, and what I see is the following:
what do you think can be? Thanks!
Last edited by domx93 (2021-02-14 13:52:03)
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I would guess that you don't have a suitable font installed.
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I would guess that you don't have a suitable font installed.
hi, is there a way to understand what font I need? This is whatskesk when I try to save a file, quite annoying
https://i.ibb.co/B2xsMxR/photo-2021-01-19-22-50-43.jpg
moderator edit -- replaced oversized image with link.
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Last edited by 2ManyDogs (2021-01-20 00:13:30)
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Newer pango versions don't support pcf bitmap fonts.
What is "a particular font"?
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Newer pango versions don't support pcf bitmap fonts.
What is "a particular font"?
sorry, bad translation from my language "a certain font"
is there a way to solve the problem?
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FF45 and so on are "full width latin" characters typically available in CJK fonts. Possibly try wqy-microhei, that is small and should cover the most important symbols.
| alias CUTF='LANG=en_XX.UTF-8@POSIX ' |
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sorry, bad translation from my language "a certain font"
The translation is fine, but I meant "which font do you use that renders this", many CJKs are/used to be bitmap fonts (and your screenshot looks like it's a bitmap font)
If you don't know, try
FC_DEBUG=4 pango-view --font="sans" -t "e" | grep family:
and post the output.
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FF45 and so on are "full width latin" characters typically available in CJK fonts. Possibly try wqy-microhei, that is small and should cover the most important symbols.
sorry, I don't understand. If the problem is pango how installing new fonts should help?
domx93 wrote:sorry, bad translation from my language "a certain font"
The translation is fine, but I meant "which font do you use that renders this", many CJKs are/used to be bitmap fonts (and your screenshot looks like it's a bitmap font)
If you don't know, tryFC_DEBUG=4 pango-view --font="sans" -t "e" | grep family:
and post the output.
I have no idea, I found these fonts surfing in the web or in the whatsapp client application. The outuput of that command is super huge, I copied it here.
Last edited by domx93 (2021-01-20 22:24:36)
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Please try
FC_DEBUG=4 pango-view --font="sans" -t "e" | grep family: | curl -F 'f:1=<-' ix.io
(the online doc thing there shredded the formatting, notably linebreaks)
Edit, but it seems to end in Nimbus Sans, try to install the DejaVu fonts, https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/any/ttf-dejavu/
Last edited by seth (2021-01-21 04:40:34)
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Please try
FC_DEBUG=4 pango-view --font="sans" -t "e" | grep family: | curl -F 'f:1=<-' ix.io
(the online doc thing there shredded the formatting, notably linebreaks)
Edit, but it seems to end in Nimbus Sans, try to install the DejaVu fonts, https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/any/ttf-dejavu/
Hi, sorry for the delay. That command doesn't work and opens a little window with the undreadable character:
(base) [domenico@domenico-archthinkpad ~]$ FC_DEBUG=4 pango-view --font="sans" -t "e" | grep family: | curl -F 'f:1=<-' ix.io
Fontconfig error: Cannot load default config file
I installed that package too, but it didn't solve.
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That command doesn't work and opens a little window with the undreadable character:
You're supposed to post the link you get from xi.io.
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That command doesn't work and opens a little window with the undreadable character:
You're supposed to post the link you get from xi.io.
sorry, I understood just now!
http://ix.io/2Okp
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Edit, but it seems to end in Nimbus Sans, try to install the DejaVu fonts, https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/any/ttf-dejavu/
The recent output doesn't suggest it's installed.
If it is, try to (temporarily) remove the gsfonts package.
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seth wrote:Edit, but it seems to end in Nimbus Sans, try to install the DejaVu fonts, https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/any/ttf-dejavu/
The recent output doesn't suggest it's installed.
If it is, try to (temporarily) remove the gsfonts package.
Sorry I made confusion with the laptops, now I installed even in this one (I have this problem in both). Updated output: http://ix.io/2OlI
Anyway, removing gsfonts didn't produce any difference...
Last edited by domx93 (2021-02-04 17:57:36)
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That link seems to describe some key bindings?
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That link seems to describe some key bindings?
Uhm I don't know, why?
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No idea, it's now the proper content.
The glyph is ulimately resolved from DejaVu Sans (as expected) but from a local test, even DejaVu doesn't have it.
I get it out of Droid Sans, https://archlinux.org/packages/community/any/ttf-droid/
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No idea, it's now the proper content.
The glyph is ulimately resolved from DejaVu Sans (as expected) but from a local test, even DejaVu doesn't have it.
I get it out of Droid Sans, https://archlinux.org/packages/community/any/ttf-droid/
I think this is the problem:
Newer pango versions don't support pcf bitmap fonts.
What is "a particular font"?
but how other linux so can do that? I don't understand...
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What is "other linux" and does it maybe ship Droid Sans by default or maybe some cjk's?
https://archlinux.org/packages/?q=cjk
It's just an exotic glyph that's not provided by many fonts and you don't have one available and arch doesn't shovel random stuff on your disk (i3 users often forget to install *any* font and wonder why their desktop doesn't render any text at all)
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What is "other linux" and does it maybe ship Droid Sans by default or maybe some cjk's?
https://archlinux.org/packages/?q=cjkIt's just an exotic glyph that's not provided by many fonts and you don't have one available and arch doesn't shovel random stuff on your disk (i3 users often forget to install *any* font and wonder why their desktop doesn't render any text at all)
uhm I don't understand. pango doesn't support bitmaps font but if I install it then it does?
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Droid is not a bitmap font.
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Droid is not a bitmap font.
ah ok, so do you think that the problem was not the fact that those fonts were bitmap? Anyway I solved some problems, now I can see stuff that I didn't see in firefox (great, thanks so much!) but in whatsdesk (the whtasapp desktop app) I still see this when I want to save a file:
https://i.ibb.co/1f0VTHB/immagine.png
Last edited by domx93 (2021-02-14 19:50:55)
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Final update: I found someone saying on internet that the problem was snap that couldn't access the system fonts, so I reinstalled whatsdesk by aur and now the problem is solved! Thank you so much!
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You didn't mention snap before… https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Sn … unreadable
Please remove the oversized image.
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