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From: Daniel Frey <djqfrey@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Symbols missing from Firefox
Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2016 15:46:48
Message-Id: 574F035B.50309@gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Symbols missing from Firefox by Peter Humphrey
1 On 06/01/2016 08:38 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote:
2 > Hello list,
3 >
4 > I have quite a few sites that firefox doesn't display properly. It seems to
5 > be short of some symbols. I've attached two screen shots; in the first, the
6 > peculiar thing next to the text should (I think) be a broad up-arrow; and
7 > the second shows some buttons from twitter which occur in many other sites
8 > too.
9 >
10 > Does anyone know what I'm missing?
11 >
12 > Google-chrome displays these pages properly.
13 >
14 > $ emerge -pv firefox
15 >
16 > These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
17 >
18 > Calculating dependencies .... done!
19 > [ebuild R ] www-client/firefox-38.8.0::gentoo USE="dbus gmp-autoupdate
20 > gstreamer jemalloc3 jit startup-notification system-icu system-jpeg system-
21 > libvpx system-sqlite -bindist -custom-cflags -custom-optimization -debug -egl
22 > -gstreamer-0 -hardened -minimal (-neon) (-pgo) -pulseaudio (-selinux) (-
23 > system-cairo) {-test} -wifi" LINGUAS="en_GB -af -ar -as -ast -be -bg -bn_BD -
24 > bn_IN -br -bs -ca -cs -cy -da -de -el -en_ZA -eo -es_AR -es_CL -es_ES -es_MX
25 > -et -eu -fa -fi -fr -fy_NL -ga_IE -gd -gl -gu_IN -he -hi_IN -hr -hu -hy_AM -
26 > id -is -it -ja -kk -km -kn -ko -lt -lv -mai -mk -ml -mr -nb_NO -nl -nn_NO -
27 > or -pa_IN -pl -pt_BR -pt_PT -rm -ro -ru -si -sk -sl -son -sq -sr -sv_SE -ta
28 > -te -th -tr -uk -vi -xh -zh_CN -zh_TW" 0 KiB
29 >
30 > Total: 1 package (1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 0 KiB
31 >
32
33 Do you have all the required fonts installed? If you look back a couple
34 months I had unreadable prints and distortion and it turned out to be a
35 font misconfiguration issue.
36
37 Dan

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Re: [gentoo-user] Symbols missing from Firefox Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××.uk>