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aksilarch

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Registered: 2021-09-15

Posts: 51

[SOLVED] encoding/symbols/special-characters display problem

hello,

i have installed archlinux on my machine (base install). i'm fairly new to using archlinux and i like it very much so far. as you can see in the following screenshot, right after the installation and after doing some visual tweaking and exploring, i discovered this and i cannot seem to fix the problem (the special characters such as asian characters or symbols are not encoded properly?)

it is really annoying and frustrating (noticed it on firefox, chromium and the font editor as you can see), i'd appreciate your help in this matter. thank you.

https://i.imgur.com/XVWVjrg.png

Last edited by aksilarch (2021-09-15 14:11:12)

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V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,104

Re: [SOLVED] encoding/symbols/special-characters display problem

Please only link to or provide thumbnails of bigger images: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Genera … s_and_code (... and post these following outputs in the code tags mentioned there)

What's your locale

locale
locale -a
localectl

Last edited by V1del (2021-09-15 06:28:51)

aksilarch

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Registered: 2021-09-15

Posts: 51

Re: [SOLVED] encoding/symbols/special-characters display problem

thanks for the reply @V1del, i updated my post and here's the output of what you have requested:

locale
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=

locale -a
C
en_US.utf8
POSIX

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

Last edited by aksilarch (2021-09-15 11:18:53)

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seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

Posts: 74,318

Re: [SOLVED] encoding/symbols/special-characters display problem

FC_DEBUG=4 pango-view --font="sans-serif" -t "첫" | grep family:

U+CCAB is "첫", Hangul Syllable Ceos" and whatever font you're using doesn't provide that glyph nor does it resolve to some font that does.
I get it resolved from "Droid Sans Fallback", if you're using noto, you probably want https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/an … fonts-cjk/

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aksilarch

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Registered: 2021-09-15

Posts: 51

Re: [SOLVED] encoding/symbols/special-characters display problem

FC_DEBUG=4 pango-view --font="sans-serif" -t "첫" | grep family:

U+CCAB is "첫", Hangul Syllable Ceos" and whatever font you're using doesn't provide that glyph nor does it resolve to some font that does.
I get it resolved from "Droid Sans Fallback", if you're using noto, you probably want https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/an … fonts-cjk/

thanks for your reply, i can see it fixed now after installing https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/an … fonts-cjk/
(on firefox at least)

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