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In comp.os.linux.development.apps, Bob Tennent  <rdtennent@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Seems to be one of "Lucida Grande","Trebuchet
>> MS","Verdana","Helvetica","Arial",sans-serif;

Firefox inspector (which is the only one I've used recently, and not
much) underlines the font being used.

>> fontforge and 9 is 9.  Same with all the others.

Fontforge must be using the font files differently, but I can't say how.
Fonts are complicated.[*]

> Using the following test file:
...
> <style type="text/css">
> body { font-family:  "Lucida Grande";}
>  </style>
> </head>
> 999
...
> 
> I've determined that my Lucida_Grande.ttf is the problem

That's good. Corrupt fonts are not common, or at least not commonly
noticed. If ¥ prints as ₩ but you never buy anything in Yen or Won, you
might not realize the problem.

Elijah
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[*] https://hackaday.com/2021/03/22/an-entire-game-inside-of-a-font/