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Yasso

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Registered: 2023-09-06

Posts: 3

Some glyph fonts characters not showing

Hi everyone first time posting here
I have installed Arch Linux last week and I greatly love it !

However I have something that I don't understand and it's the fonts glyph. When I use apps like vscode, firefox or obsidian (installed through pacman) some glyph have no display at all and that is no matter what system fonts I'm using. I tried to use fonts Cantarell, Font Awesome, Noto Sans and it doesn't change the issue. I also tried to install the Papirus icon theme but againit doesn't change the issue.

I use gnome as a desktop environnement and I set the system font with gnome-tweaks if you're wondering.

The way for me to show you what I'm talking about is with this website that list the font characters : https://www.martinstoeckli.ch/fontmap/fontmap.html On a lot of tables I have almost not glyph at all like you can see on this screenshot : https://imgur.com/a/mnpWIk5

Whereas on my phone every glyph is shown properly : https://imgur.com/a/ovsDFzY

If you have an idea where this might come from I will be very happy.

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,237

Re: Some glyph fonts characters not showing

You need to install fonts that provide those. E.g. most of those later code points will be emoji's so you need fonts that provide emojis: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Fonts# … nd_symbols and/or japanese/korean fonts https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Fonts# … Vietnamese

Yasso

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Registered: 2023-09-06

Posts: 3

Re: Some glyph fonts characters not showing

I don't think it's that, but maybe I do something wrong.

I tried to install ttf-twemoji and ttf-twemoji-color and put 46-ttf-twemoji-color.conf under $HOME/.config/fontconfig/conf.d but still have the same issue.

One thing I noticed however, is that I can see the emoji fonts when I use my terminal (Black Box) when viewing a file for example. It works when I use more or nvim. Here you can see the difference between vscode and my terminal : https://imgur.com/a/Arlex54. The only apps for now where I saw the emoji not loading are obsidan, vscode and all the browser that I tried to use (chrome, firefox, gnome web)

RaZorr

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Registered: 2021-12-02

Posts: 42

Re: Some glyph fonts characters not showing

What do you have as fonts in firefox settings?

For me, the symbols in the website are shown. I have Deafult (Noto Serif) in firefox.

I think  the following packages are relevant:

noto-fonts
noto-fonts-cjk
noto-fonts-emoji

Last edited by RaZorr (2023-09-06 22:07:23)

Yasso

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Registered: 2023-09-06

Posts: 3

Re: Some glyph fonts characters not showing

Thanks a lot installing the packages that you've mentionned helped a lot for firefox and other browser no matter what font I use. Now all the symbols on the website are properly shown.

However for vscode and obisidan that have not succeed. I have found a workaround for vscode and that is to use the MesloLGS NF font. However for obsidian no matter what font I use (even the noto one) it does not load properly the glyphs.

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

Posts: 76,101

Re: Some glyph fonts characters not showing

Install DejaVu, pretty much every font ultimately resorts to that and it has mono variants.
For obsidian, please name some specific codepoints you're interested in.
You can then check which installed fonts provide it w/ eg.

fc-list :charset=1f4a9 # with codepoint 1f4a9 as the self referential poop emoji

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