Dev1 Galaxy Forum / [SOLVED] How to fix unicode text, it's showing as a box

Re: [SOLVED] How to fix unicode text, it's showing as a box

dummy@example.com (quickfur) — Wed, 03 Jan 2024 21:38:58 +0000

In firefox, ctrl-shift-I to open web developer tools, click on the select arrow (upper left) to select an element, select the piece of text containing the offending character, then on the right panel select "fonts" to see the fonts used to render that bit of text.

I'm not sure if the underlying problem is actually solved; this particular character ought to be in many of the fonts we recommended that you should install, so I'm not sure why it only shows up when a Korean font is installed. I suspect there's still something fishy with your font config; it shouldn't need a Korean font to be able to find a suitable glyph for this character, since you've already installed many fonts that, ostensibly, should already include it.

Re: [SOLVED] How to fix unicode text, it's showing as a box

dummy@example.com (Ron) — Wed, 03 Jan 2024 21:07:35 +0000

quickfur wrote:

Interesting, on my browser it's showing up as rendered from a Chinese font (fonts-wqy-zenhei).

Thanks for the hint. I installed a Korean font and now I can see it. Yay! [BTW, how can you tell it is rendered on your system via a Chinese font?]

Thanks to everyone who took the time to help.

Re: [SOLVED] How to fix unicode text, it's showing as a box

dummy@example.com (stopAI) — Wed, 03 Jan 2024 17:09:54 +0000

quickfur wrote:

Yeah, I suspect it's a problem with the OP's font configuration, or something isn't properly installed that's causing it to revert to fonts that don't contain the required characters.

Maybe you should ask the Devuan 5 (Crowz) developer?

Re: [SOLVED] How to fix unicode text, it's showing as a box

dummy@example.com (JWM-Kit) — Wed, 03 Jan 2024 15:50:26 +0000

Don't know if it will help, but have you tried updating the font cache

fc-cache -fv

Re: [SOLVED] How to fix unicode text, it's showing as a box

dummy@example.com (quickfur) — Wed, 03 Jan 2024 15:44:22 +0000

Yeah, I suspect it's a problem with the OP's font configuration, or something isn't properly installed that's causing it to revert to fonts that don't contain the required characters.

Re: [SOLVED] How to fix unicode text, it's showing as a box

dummy@example.com (alexkemp) — Wed, 03 Jan 2024 12:37:55 +0000

quickfur wrote:

Interesting, on my browser it's showing up as rendered from a Chinese font (fonts-wqy-zenhei)./

Further down the page, under "Preview", it is shown rendered under Times New Roman, Arial & Courier New. No problems with any of that on my system.

Re: [SOLVED] How to fix unicode text, it's showing as a box

dummy@example.com (quickfur) — Wed, 03 Jan 2024 02:03:26 +0000

Interesting, on my browser it's showing up as rendered from a Chinese font (fonts-wqy-zenhei). This is unlikely to be the only font that contains this character, so installing this font may or may not solve your problem. But it's worth a shot...?

Otherwise you might want to check if fontconfig and fontconfig-config are properly installed. Maybe try force-reinstalling fontconfig and fontconfig-config? If that still doesn't work, then I'm out of ideas.

Re: [SOLVED] How to fix unicode text, it's showing as a box

dummy@example.com (Ron) — Wed, 03 Jan 2024 00:27:27 +0000

Here you go: ｜

https://unicodeplus.com/U+FF5C

Re: [SOLVED] How to fix unicode text, it's showing as a box

dummy@example.com (quickfur) — Wed, 03 Jan 2024 00:07:54 +0000

Do you know exactly what those offending characters are? Any chance you could copy-n-paste them here somehow? Just wondering if they are some obscure characters that most fonts wouldn't have.

Re: [SOLVED] How to fix unicode text, it's showing as a box

dummy@example.com (Ron) — Wed, 03 Jan 2024 00:00:27 +0000

stopAI wrote:

Download Ubuntu Nerd Font and UbuntuMono Nerd Font from here:

Tried these fonts (I like them) but it's not fixing the box. I know the system is picking it up because I noticed the difference. I'm ready to give up. But thanks for the nice fonts.

Re: [SOLVED] How to fix unicode text, it's showing as a box

dummy@example.com (quickfur) — Tue, 02 Jan 2024 22:30:02 +0000

Note that after installing new fonts they may not get picked up immediately. You may need to log out and log in again, or restart your display server, before the new fonts will get picked up. Maybe try that?

If that still doesn't work, it might be a problem with font configuration, i.e., the fonts are installed but the application for whatever reason is defaulting to an old font that doesn't have the needed characters.

Re: [SOLVED] How to fix unicode text, it's showing as a box

dummy@example.com (Ron) — Tue, 02 Jan 2024 21:51:41 +0000

Just tried dpkg-reconfigure locales. That didn't fix it. I also already tried fonts-noto-core and also fonts-freefont-ttf, fonts-opensymbol, fonts-dejavu-extra, and fonts-arkpandora. None of these worked.

Re: [SOLVED] How to fix unicode text, it's showing as a box

dummy@example.com (quickfur) — Tue, 02 Jan 2024 16:04:17 +0000

You could also try `apt install fonts-noto`. Noto is a font that tries to provide a basic level of glyphs for as many Unicode characters as possible, so that they won't show up as boxes. The glyphs may not be the best, but at least you'll see something instead of just a box.

Re: [SOLVED] How to fix unicode text, it's showing as a box

dummy@example.com (rolfie) — Tue, 02 Jan 2024 14:43:39 +0000

Ron wrote:

Do I select "All locales"?

You could but that would generate all locales on your PC which I guess you will not want. Just select the one(s) that are relevant for you. en_GB.utf8 or en_US.utf8? Or both?

Re: [SOLVED] How to fix unicode text, it's showing as a box

dummy@example.com (stopAI) — Tue, 02 Jan 2024 13:11:59 +0000

Hello.

Download Ubuntu Nerd Font and UbuntuMono Nerd Font from here:

https://www.nerdfonts.com/font-downloads

Extract it.

Put files to

~/.local/share/fonts/

Instruct your program to use these fronts.

Logout and login again.