Re: firefox fonts problem since upgrade to F42

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On Fri Jul04'25 10:29:06AM, Community Support for Fedora Users wrote:
> From: home user via users <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2025 10:29:06 -0600
> To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: home user <mattisonw@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reply-To: Community support for Fedora users <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: firefox fonts problem since upgrade to F42
> 
> 
> On 7/4/25 3:37 AM, Tim via users wrote:
> > On Tue, 2025-07-01 at 11:38 -0500, Ranjan Maitra via users wrote:
> > > I have a strange problem in that many of the fonts on firefox look
> > > weird and unreadable: an example is at https://ibb.co/bjCGrZNm  (This
> > > is a website https://plumz.me/archives/14050/ I found out when I
> > > searched on DDG with the terms "firefox fonts fedora 42" which
> > > possibly has the answer, but is unreadable.
> > 
> > That site loads fine here, but has Chinese (*) text and will need a
> > suitable font.  Mine already had one.
> 
> I'm at f42.
> In the first site, the top part looks like an image (screen-capture) of
> text, not actual text.  The second site displays fine.
> 
> > * Going by the suggestion about translating from Chinese to English
> > that popped up when I first loaded it (which didn't actually do
> > anything).  I can't really tell if those are Chinese characters.
> 
> The second site is mostly "simplified" (1) Chinese.
> The Firefox "beta" translation tool worked fine here, but it did take about
> a minute.  I do see a little of some other language in the page. Korean?
> Japanese?  some other eastern Asian language?
> 
> Don't most of the NOTO fonts that come with Fedora support CJK (Chinese,
> Japanese, and Korean)?
> 
> (1) "Simplified" Chinese is the "official" script of the People's Republic
> of China (mainland China), used in most of mainland China.  The main script
> used in Taiwan and the Hong Kong area is "traditional" Chinese.
> 

Thank you! I don't however understand why I can see the characters all right (from what I can tell) on chromium-browser upgraded as with firefox and everything else. I was thinking that this may indicate something missing in my firefox fonts support.

Best wishes,
Ranjan


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