From: George R Goffe <grgoffe(a)yahoo.com>
To: For testing and quality assurance of Fedora releases
<test(a)lists.fedoraproject.org>; Adam Williamson <adamwill(a)fedoraproject.org>
Sent: Friday, April 24, 2020, 4:12:19 PM PDT
Subject: Re: fonts used by virt-manager display as tiny boxes with a number in each
Hi,
Magic has happened with this bug. I have been piecewise installing pkgs on a new VM with
fc33 installed... in an attempt to find one (or more) that caused this problem. I happened
to use virt-manager just now on my host which first exhibited the problem and (here comes
the magic) IT WORKED... without problems.
I'm now a believer in magic. :-) I just closed the bug on
bugzilla.redhat.com for this
problem. Fixed by nobody I guess. Sigh.
Anyway... THANKS to all who gave your precious time and energy who helped with this
mystery.
George...
On Monday, April 6, 2020, 8:48:29 AM PDT, Adam Williamson
<adamwill(a)fedoraproject.org> wrote:
On Mon, 2020-04-06 at 13:12 +0000, George R Goffe via test wrote:
Hi,
I was trying to manage some VMs with virt-manager but where the text
was supposed to be, tiny boxes appeared with a number in each. There
are at least two bug reports on this but I thought I'd ask about this
here.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1821269 and
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1257158
Has anyone seen this?
Best regards and STAY SAFE!
Hi George!
When you say "the text", *which* text exactly do you mean? Text in the
virt-manager app itself? Text in the VMs?
"Tiny boxes with numbers" in them are usually indicating a character
which the font rendering engine cannot find a font with a
representation of. The numbers are the character's Unicode code point.
This can happen if the characters are in an alphabet you don't have a
font for, or if they're some kind of symbol set you don't have a font
for.
--
Adam Williamson
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