чт, 28 апр. 2022 г. в 21:20, gevisz <gev...@gmail.com>: > ср, 27 апр. 2022 г. в 13:55, Frank Steinmetzger <war...@gmx.de>: > > > > Am Sun, Apr 24, 2022 at 11:57:49PM +0300 schrieb gevisz: > > > > > After a recent update of my Gentoo system, I have noticed that some > > > symbols may be rendered incomplete in a text mode. > > > > What exactly do you mean with “text mode”? > > First of all, thank you for replying to my question. > > By "text mode" I mean that "it happened in Gvim, in a web-browser > and in a dialog-window for saving files" but not in videos or pictures. > > > Which terminal are you using, and—most importantly—which font? > > I am using xfce-terminal, and it is using Monospace Regular font on 11 pt. > > In Gvim, I use the same Monospace Regular font on 10 pt. > > I do not know which font is in use by the window that helps me > to save html files from the web-browser. > > I have noticed this problem with cyrillic symbols and dots. > > > > It happens in Gvim, in a web-browser and in a dialog-window for saving > > > files. Maybe, also in xterm but I am not quite sure about it. So, it is > > > not specific to any application. > > > > So not only in text mode (i.e. TTY or terminal)? > > No, as I already explained above, by "text mode" I mean that > "it happened in Gvim, in a web-browser and in a dialog-window > for saving files" but not in videos or pictures. > > > > For example, while saving a web-page from a google-chrome, I sometimes > > > cannot see a dot before html. However, it is present there. > > > > See it where? A (small) screenshot may help. > > Unfortunately, I have not made a screenshot of this. So, I will try to > explain: > When I press Ctrl+s to save an html page from the google-chrome > a dialog window is opened with the suggested name of the file that > ends in "html." There is a dot before that "html" but sometimes it was > not shown to me. >
It probably should be added that instead of that dot I saw a white space. > The same was with the top parts of some cyrillic letters > (to the point that it was hard to read). > > > Perhaps it is an overwide character, but the program that displays the > text > > wants to adhere to a regular character width. I’ve had this issue in the > > past with Konsole. > > I do not think that it was connected with overwide characters because > the effect appeared not with them or beside them. > > This problem with dots and top parts of letters *faded* > after I updated the freetype package this Sunday. > However, I cannot say that it stopped immediately after this update. > It indeed *faded* during a few rebooting after that. > > > > Some letters can be shown without their top parts. In youtube videos, I > > > may see only the lower part of a gear that denotes some customization > > > features and so on. > > > > Only the gear? Or also all the other symbols in the video player toolbar? > > No, not only the gear symbol but some other ones as well, but not all of > them. > > > Again, a nicely cropped screenshot may shed some light so we can better > > understand it. > > I was able to reproduce it just now and made a few screenshots. > I will add "a nicely cropped" ones as attachments to this email. > > It as also interesting that the symbol in the youtube player toolbar > that was shown only partially changes to the full one when I move > a mouse pointer over it. > > > > However, I do not see any distortion in playing videos. > > > > Did you set up a strange or very unusual DPI value for your font > rendering? > > No, I have not played with this. And moreover, with the same settings, > it was completely ok for years. > >
