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I noticed today that a bunch of applications, and even some web sites were displaying interesting fonts, making the application/web site unusable and unreadable - most notably QT applications. The text rendered like an interesting cross between Hindu and Arabic. This issue just so happened to crop up shortly after transferring a bunch of fonts over from my Windozzze partition to Linux:

cd /media/hda1/WINDOWS/Fonts
cp * ~/.fonts
sudo fc-cache -fv

Basically, there seemed to be a conflict between the fonts already installed in Linux, and the fonts I had just transferred over. So, I removed all the fonts, and copied over just the True Type Fonts and Open Type Fonts:

cd ~/.fonts
rm *.*
cd /media/hda1/WINDOWS/Fonts
cp *.ttf *.TTF *.otf *.OTF ~/.fonts
sudo fc-cache -fv

So far so good - the funky script has been replaced with readable text. I guess I’ll have to move the rest one-by-one to find the miscreant font…


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5 Responses to “Weird Fonts in Ubuntu”

  1. anescient Says:

    Have you pinned down exactly what caused this?

    I’m currently having this exact problem, but only with Azureus. If Azureus uses QT, it may be the only app I have that does.

  2. anescient Says:

    Oop. Nevermind.

    http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=657164

    Azureus randomly set its language to Armenian for no particular reason. Running the config wizard and setting the language properly (again) fixed it.

  3. Hodge Says:

    Hi anescient,

    The problem was purely down to the fonts that I had copied over form my old Windows partition, but for some strange reason only targeted QT apps. Azureus is Java based, but if there’s a font conflict at a lower level in the system, then it could potentially affect any application.

    Glad you got it sorted, and interesting the Azureus defaulted to Armenian - pretty random!

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