Weird Fonts in Ubuntu
Posted by Hodge on May 11, 2008 in Ubuntu • 5 comments •
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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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.
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.
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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