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Re: 9 displays as - in every browser

From Bob Tennent <rdtennent@tennent.ca>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.development.apps
Subject Re: 9 displays as - in every browser
Date 2021-04-03 01:09 +0000
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID <s48f7m$co8$1@dont-email.me> (permalink)
References <s473im$v4e$1@dont-email.me> <s47odn$psh$1@dont-email.me> <eli$2104021450@qaz.wtf> <s488jn$6dd$1@dont-email.me> <eli$2104021930@qaz.wtf>

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On Fri, 2 Apr 2021 23:30:40 +0000 (UTC), Eli the Bearded wrote:
 > In comp.os.linux.development.apps, Bob Tennent  <rdtennent@gmail.com> wrote:
 >> A typical problem site is imslp.org. I can't find where the
 >> font is specified. It's not the default font I've specified
 >> in preferences.
 > ...
 >> Yes.  Another CentOS-7 system.  No problems.
 > ...
 >> Selecting a title with 9s and pasting into an xterm shows
 >> the 9s.  
 >
 > All consistent with a corrupt font. Checksum the font files and compare
 > with the working system. It might be something else still, but that
 > seems most likely now.
 >
 > Elijah
 > ------
 > try Web Developer -> Inspector to find the font by name

Seems to be one of "Lucida Grande","Trebuchet
MS","Verdana","Helvetica","Arial",sans-serif;

fc-match Lucida Grande fails but fc-match Trebuchet reports

  DejaVuSans.ttf: "DejaVu Sans" "Book"

Is that the suspect font? I opened my DejaVuSans.ttf in
fontforge and 9 is 9.  Same with all the others.

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9 displays as - in every browser Bob Tennent <rdtennent@tennent.ca> - 2021-04-02 12:44 +0000
  Re: 9 displays as - in every browser Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2021-04-02 17:53 +0000
    Re: 9 displays as - in every browser Bob Tennent <rdtennent@tennent.ca> - 2021-04-02 18:39 +0000
      Re: 9 displays as - in every browser Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2021-04-02 18:50 +0000
        Re: 9 displays as - in every browser Bob Tennent <rdtennent@tennent.ca> - 2021-04-02 23:16 +0000
          Re: 9 displays as - in every browser Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2021-04-02 23:30 +0000
            Re: 9 displays as - in every browser Bob Tennent <rdtennent@tennent.ca> - 2021-04-03 01:09 +0000
              Re: 9 displays as - in every browser Bob Tennent <rdtennent@tennent.ca> - 2021-04-03 01:45 +0000
                Re: 9 displays as - in every browser Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2021-04-03 05:26 +0000
  Re: 9 displays as - in every browser Jasen Betts <usenet@revmaps.no-ip.org> - 2021-04-03 03:35 +0000

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