Well it is worse than icecat now that I have removed every WM/DM but Xfce4.

Most applications still display text, but libreoffice can be seen in the appended screenshot.
ng0 transcribed 3.4K bytes:
> Chris Marusich transcribed 237K bytes:
> > ng0 <contact.ng0@cryptolab.net> writes:
> > 
> > > Here is a visual display of some fonts: https://ptpb.pw/EQfV.png
> > >
> > > This is either related to icecat changes or to changes with font
> > > related packages.
> > 
> > The same page (presumably http://www.bbc.com/) renders fine for me; no
> > boxes, all glyphs appear to be rendered correctly.  In addition, system
> > fonts appear to be selectable for me in icecat.  See attached files for
> > screenshots.
> 
> Well this is odd. And you run GuixSD I assume? I wonder where the source for
> fonts being suddenly AWOL lies.
> I remember that they used to work.
> 
> > I have not run 'guix pull' in the last week or two.  Would you like me
> > to tell you anything about my system's configuration that might shed
> > light on the issue?  I'm going to update my system later today, so if
> > there are any problems (or not), I'll let you know.
> 
> Yes, that would be useful.
> 
> > Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com> writes:
> > 
> > > On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 2:05 PM, ng0 <contact.ng0@cryptolab.net> wrote:
> > > [...]
> > >>> >ng0 transcribed 1.1K bytes:
> > >>> >> Were you (or someone else) able to reproduce this?
> > >>>
> > >>> I never got the Japanese fonts working on GuixSD by following our info manual, and this was before those updates.
> > >>
> > >> Can you tell me exactly or roughly what you tried and what errors (not specific, in general) you
> > >> see in the current functioning system? It would be useful to get a clear view on
> > >> languages / localization specific issues to improve the system.
> > >
> > > I don't recall seeing any particular errors, I had simply followed
> > > section 2.6.3 X11 Fonts [1] and installed the suggested fonts using:
> > > "guix package -i font-adobe-source-han-sans:jp".
> > >
> > > Japanese characters were still displayed as boxes (with unicode? in
> > > them) in any software I tried following a system reboot (gnucash,
> > > icecat, etc.).
> > >
> > > [1]: https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/guix.html
> > 
> > FWIW, Japanese fonts work for me in all applications I have tried so
> > far, which includes Icecat, GNOME terminal, graphical emacs, and Gedit,
> > all on GNOME.  I don't recall doing anything that wasn't described in
> > the manual.
> > 
> > If you're interested in troubleshooting it, I'd like to help you get
> > Japanese fonts working.  For starters, maybe this information will help:
> > 
> > --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> > $ guix package --list-installed | grep font
> > font-gnu-freefont-ttf	20120503	out	/gnu/store/4yk3w5yk8rn2cxzw2kq3ih7l515cy32d-font-gnu-freefont-ttf-20120503
> > font-inconsolata	0.80	out	/gnu/store/pd23zma09d50ssdww2a3v5xjaafxc8pm-font-inconsolata-0.80
> > font-liberation	2.00.1	out	/gnu/store/2wp4n6nvzhs9i6cj5c760x3s4xk3lhrk-font-liberation-2.00.1
> > font-adobe-source-han-sans	1.004	out	/gnu/store/44kyy0nlm2jap3z60gh1bq9s4gpkq3mi-font-adobe-source-han-sans-1.004
> > font-terminus	4.40	out	/gnu/store/l59m8b44dyiydgf6i3ckgwafdxi2zllw-font-terminus-4.40
> > font-dejavu	2.37	out	/gnu/store/bs8ky224vljlclrv547k4alz7386lawi-font-dejavu-2.37
> > gs-fonts	8.11	out	/gnu/store/z0as6gp6grsqs4a8knbxkcwbyxriqmgc-gs-fonts-8.11
> > --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
> > 
> > I see that I am not using the "jp" output of font-adobe-source-han-sans;
> > perhaps you can try again using the "out" output?
> > 
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> > Chris
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