[arch-general] Odd unicode glyph rendering issues

[Mark Raynsford]

On 2022-04-04T15:48:54 +0200
LuKaRo via arch-general <arch-general at lists.archlinux.org> wrote:

> What about the list of installed packages? Are there any notable 
> differences? Maybe make a diff on the output of pacman -Q :)
> 

Nothing notable, in this case, however...

On 2022-04-04T15:59:29 +0100
Ralph Corderoy via arch-general <arch-general at lists.archlinux.org>
wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> > What about the list of installed packages? Are there any notable 
> > differences?  Maybe make a diff on the output of pacman -Q :)  
> 
> Also, compare the output of fc-list(1) on each machine?

It looks like this might be the culprit. I aggressively went through
the working machine and removed any font that wasn't present on the
non-working machine. Now, neither machine works!

So now the issue is that even though both machines have been configured
to use the same font all along, clearly the one that _was_ working was
falling back to some other font for the glyphs the selected font didn't
have.

I'm not sure if there's a sane way to find out what exactly was
happening there. Ideally I'd like both machines to work.

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