chromium shows squares in text

cinan · 2011-03-07 09:55:29

Hi,
I have installed chromium-browser-bin from AUR. It shows squares in text on some sites. Here are screenshots:
http://imgur.com/wdoha
http://imgur.com/SCDoY
(itnews.sk & maps.google.com)

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boogy · 2011-03-07 14:24:02

Is it showing this on all the sites ?

I think that you must install some fonts, but I rely don't know witch ones ...

cinan · 2011-03-07 15:12:12

it's showing just on some of sites. For example archlinux.org, wikipedia, reddit are OK, but facebook is buggy.

kcirick · 2011-03-07 15:23:20

Does it work in normal chromium (not from AUR)?

litemotiv · 2011-03-07 17:45:06

Same problem for me with the same browser from AUR.

For instance here: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 58#p899358

The posts from milomouse and JohannesSM64 are all squares.

nicodoggie · 2011-03-07 17:58:14

It might be the encoding. Click on the wrench>Tools>Encoding. Try Unicode (UTF-8) or whichever encoding you usually prefer.

litemotiv · 2011-03-07 18:00:00

nicodoggie wrote:

It might be the encoding. Click on the wrench>Tools>Encoding. Try Unicode (UTF-8) or whichever encoding you usually prefer.

Forgot to mention, already tried that..

nicodoggie · 2011-03-07 18:03:44

Have you tried deleting the config files in .config/chromium? Don't know if that'll fix anything though... probably just worth a shot.

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nicodoggie · 2011-03-07 18:09:48

litemotiv wrote:

Same problem for me with the same browser from AUR.
For instance here: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 58#p899358
The posts from milomouse and JohannesSM64 are all squares.

Do you have some Japanese fonts installed? Those two posts specifically are in Japanese.

litemotiv · 2011-03-07 18:32:09

nicodoggie wrote:

Do you have some Japanese fonts installed?

No, but i before i upgraded chromium i used to see them just fine (dejavu should have them in utf-8). However, this also means that it's probably just a temporary chromium thing, so this thread will probably not lead to a solution (except downgrading ofcourse ).

cinan · 2011-03-08 21:35:15

kcirick wrote:

Does it work in normal chromium (not from AUR)?

no difference between chromium and chromium from AUR

nicodoggie wrote:

Have you tried deleting the config files in .config/chromium? Don't know if that'll fix anything though... probably just worth a shot.

yes, but it didn't solve the problem

kcirick · 2011-03-08 22:33:55

cinan wrote:

kcirick wrote:
Does it work in normal chromium (not from AUR)?
no difference between chromium and chromium from AUR

I have chromium (not from AUR) and everything works great. Here is the list of fonts I have installed (other than those installed along with xorg):
ttf-freefont
ttf-dejavu
ttf-sazanami

cinan · 2011-03-08 22:45:16

I reinstalled that fonts, problem still persists.

FranticCoin · 2020-06-13 08:03:10

Try installing noto-fonts-cjk

jasonwryan · 2020-06-13 08:10:36

I doubt it is still an issue, nine years later. Don't necrobump: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Co … bumping.22

WorMzy · 2020-06-13 10:16:19

Closing.

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