On Fri Jul04'25 10:29:06AM, Community Support for Fedora Users wrote: > From: home user via users <[email protected]> > Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2025 10:29:06 -0600 > To: [email protected] > Cc: home user <[email protected]> > Reply-To: Community support for Fedora users <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: firefox fonts problem since upgrade to F42 > > > On 7/4/25 3:37 AM, Tim via users wrote: > > On Tue, 2025-07-01 at 11:38 -0500, Ranjan Maitra via users wrote: > > > I have a strange problem in that many of the fonts on firefox look > > > weird and unreadable: an example is at https://ibb.co/bjCGrZNm (This > > > is a website https://plumz.me/archives/14050/ I found out when I > > > searched on DDG with the terms "firefox fonts fedora 42" which > > > possibly has the answer, but is unreadable. > > > > That site loads fine here, but has Chinese (*) text and will need a > > suitable font. Mine already had one. > > I'm at f42. > In the first site, the top part looks like an image (screen-capture) of > text, not actual text. The second site displays fine. > > > * Going by the suggestion about translating from Chinese to English > > that popped up when I first loaded it (which didn't actually do > > anything). I can't really tell if those are Chinese characters. > > The second site is mostly "simplified" (1) Chinese. > The Firefox "beta" translation tool worked fine here, but it did take about > a minute. I do see a little of some other language in the page. Korean? > Japanese? some other eastern Asian language? > > Don't most of the NOTO fonts that come with Fedora support CJK (Chinese, > Japanese, and Korean)? > > (1) "Simplified" Chinese is the "official" script of the People's Republic > of China (mainland China), used in most of mainland China. The main script > used in Taiwan and the Hong Kong area is "traditional" Chinese. >
Thank you! I don't however understand why I can see the characters all right (from what I can tell) on chromium-browser upgraded as with firefox and everything else. I was thinking that this may indicate something missing in my firefox fonts support. Best wishes, Ranjan > -- > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > Fedora Code of Conduct: > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected] > Do not reply to spam, report it: > https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected] Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
