On 06/01/2016 08:38 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> Hello list,
>
> I have quite a few sites that firefox doesn't display properly. It seems to
> be short of some symbols. I've attached two screen shots; in the first, the
> peculiar thing next to the text should (I think) be a broad up-arrow; and
> the second shows some buttons from twitter which occur in many other sites
> too.
>
> Does anyone know what I'm missing?
>
> Google-chrome displays these pages properly.
>
> $ emerge -pv firefox
>
> These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
>
> Calculating dependencies .... done!
> [ebuild R ] www-client/firefox-38.8.0::gentoo USE="dbus gmp-autoupdate
> gstreamer jemalloc3 jit startup-notification system-icu system-jpeg system-
> libvpx system-sqlite -bindist -custom-cflags -custom-optimization -debug -egl
> -gstreamer-0 -hardened -minimal (-neon) (-pgo) -pulseaudio (-selinux) (-
> system-cairo) {-test} -wifi" LINGUAS="en_GB -af -ar -as -ast -be -bg -bn_BD -
> bn_IN -br -bs -ca -cs -cy -da -de -el -en_ZA -eo -es_AR -es_CL -es_ES -es_MX
> -et -eu -fa -fi -fr -fy_NL -ga_IE -gd -gl -gu_IN -he -hi_IN -hr -hu -hy_AM -
> id -is -it -ja -kk -km -kn -ko -lt -lv -mai -mk -ml -mr -nb_NO -nl -nn_NO -
> or -pa_IN -pl -pt_BR -pt_PT -rm -ro -ru -si -sk -sl -son -sq -sr -sv_SE -ta
> -te -th -tr -uk -vi -xh -zh_CN -zh_TW" 0 KiB
>
> Total: 1 package (1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 0 KiB
>
Do you have all the required fonts installed? If you look back a couple
months I had unreadable prints and distortion and it turned out to be a
font misconfiguration issue.
Dan
