From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?UTF-8?Q?Todor_Kondi=C4=87?= Subject: Icecat displays mahjong characters instead of alphabet Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2020 10:53:44 +0000 Message-ID: Reply-To: =?UTF-8?Q?Todor_Kondi=C4=87?= Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:35076) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1irgJ9-0002dM-F0 for help-guix@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Jan 2020 05:53:56 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1irgJ7-00088D-SU for help-guix@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Jan 2020 05:53:55 -0500 Received: from mail-40131.protonmail.ch ([185.70.40.131]:32377) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1irgJ7-00086j-Bh for help-guix@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Jan 2020 05:53:53 -0500 List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-guix-bounces+gcggh-help-guix=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sender: "Help-Guix" To: "help-guix\\@gnu.org" I know similar questions have been asked here and the problem came and went= time and again for me personally, but here I am, a new Guix/PopOs installa= tion and icecat throwing fits. The icecat GUI (including the input text boxes), as well as some websites d= isplay blocks instead of characters. Some other websites do show fonts corr= ectly. Possibly relevant errors: ... Gtk-Message: 10:48:16.732: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module" Gtk-Message: 10:48:16.734: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module" Gtk-Message: 10:48:16.815: Failed to load module "appmenu-gtk-module" (/gnu/store/73j8fcmalx3asc5gy0rd2rcij0wqgn9v-icecat-68.4.1-guix0-preview1/l= ib/icecat/.icecat-real:4621): Pango-WARNING **: 10:48:16.816: failed to cre= ate cairo scaled font, expect ugly output. the offending font is 'Nimbus Sa= ns L 9.9990234375' ... The abovementioned Nimbus Sans does show up in my fc-list: fc-list|grep "Nimbus Sans" /gnu/store/8ppj83wc1mmrdydh9cy7vqvg0bym8l0q-gs-fonts-8.11/share/fonts/type1= /ghostscript/n019003l.pfb: Nimbus Sans L:style=3DRegular /gnu/store/8ppj83wc1mmrdydh9cy7vqvg0bym8l0q-gs-fonts-8.11/share/fonts/type1= /ghostscript/n019044l.pfb: Nimbus Sans L:style=3DBold Condensed /gnu/store/8ppj83wc1mmrdydh9cy7vqvg0bym8l0q-gs-fonts-8.11/share/fonts/type1= /ghostscript/n019023l.pfb: Nimbus Sans L:style=3DRegular Italic /gnu/store/8ppj83wc1mmrdydh9cy7vqvg0bym8l0q-gs-fonts-8.11/share/fonts/type1= /ghostscript/n019063l.pfb: Nimbus Sans L:style=3DRegular Condensed Italic /gnu/store/8ppj83wc1mmrdydh9cy7vqvg0bym8l0q-gs-fonts-8.11/share/fonts/type1= /ghostscript/n019004l.pfb: Nimbus Sans L:style=3DBold /gnu/store/8ppj83wc1mmrdydh9cy7vqvg0bym8l0q-gs-fonts-8.11/share/fonts/type1= /ghostscript/n019043l.pfb: Nimbus Sans L:style=3DRegular Condensed /gnu/store/8ppj83wc1mmrdydh9cy7vqvg0bym8l0q-gs-fonts-8.11/share/fonts/type1= /ghostscript/n019024l.pfb: Nimbus Sans L:style=3DBold Italic /gnu/store/8ppj83wc1mmrdydh9cy7vqvg0bym8l0q-gs-fonts-8.11/share/fonts/type1= /ghostscript/n019064l.pfb: Nimbus Sans L:style=3DBold Condensed Italic I have installed font-dejavu and font-liberation (as well as some other fon= ts) and I also installed fontconfig from guix. That fc-cache has been run i= n '-f' and '-r' forms. I have also tried with the system's /usr/bin/fc-cach= e. Both XDG_DATA_DIRS and XDG_CONFIG_DIRS have been set. I am running a multiprofile setup, similar to the one described in the cook= book (https://guix.gnu.org/cookbook/en/guix-cookbook.html#Advanced-package-= management) icecat version: GNU IceCat 68.4.1esr guix version: 09bad3cd42ca51974f3697f04ce841bf2fe6786c