• Fisch@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    34·
    6 months ago

    It’s not that you’re missing a font but rather that your font is missing those symbols. They’re not just regular letters. Here’s what it should look like:

    • lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      16·
      6 months ago

      It’s likely that system only has the base Latin-1 font set for some weird reason? Or a misconfigured fontserver (or equivalent in Windows). My understanding is that the text “sail the high seas” uses glyphs in both the Latin D group and the phonetic extensions groups (feel free to correct me!), so pretty much any Unicode-aware font since 2010, FOSS or otherwise, would render this correctly.

      I personally recommend the Liberation font set, although it’s free software so you can’t really pirate it.

      • Quantum CogOPEnglish
        15·
        6 months ago

        I was using Atkinson Hyperlegible font for ease of readability. By disabiling this font, this issue is fixed. Thanks for help.

        • lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
          16·
          6 months ago

          Yeah I just checked Atkinson Hyperlegible and, at least the version I can access (the one on Github) lacks entire Latin and compatible character ranges, as well as having a substantially limited math symbols set (only two greek letters show, for example).

          The weird thing is, if I understand how fonts correctly, that shouldn’t have been an issue. The font doesn’t register those missing characters, so your browser should have known to fallback to a default typeface for the missing characters. It’d be weird if you have none of the many compatible fonts (not even, say, Times New Roman).

      • mihnt@lemmy.caEnglish
        9·
        6 months ago

        so you can’t really pirate it.

        Is it still pirating if you use pirating methods to obtain it?

        • lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
          8·
          6 months ago

          Leading with the hard questions, I see!

          (I honestly wouldn’t know how to answer the question. I guess in order to pirate it, you’d have to fetch a copy from someone who broke the license terms and is thus not authorized to distribute it, but that kinda turns into a Catch-22)