What fonts do I need to install on Ubuntu in order to see special characters (💋 for example)?
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Please provide some more information. Where did you find these fonts? Any website?– greenSep 17, 2012 at 16:46
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1In Wikipedia, in the languages section– EduardoSep 17, 2012 at 16:47
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6This isn't a "font" issue, this is an encoding issue.– DanSep 17, 2012 at 16:50
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I can't see the cyrillic alphabet in the russian pages, and the japanese alphabet too– EduardoSep 17, 2012 at 16:52
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Provide a link to the page.– greenSep 17, 2012 at 17:00
1 Answer
Well apparently this was a "fonts" problem for specific languages.
Visit this Wikipedia page: List of ISO 639-1 codes and check the languages that aren't working for you.
I had the same issue for the Tibetan language which were showing those squares instead of the actual character. Installing the package fonts-tibetan-machine
fixed the problems for that exact language.
sudo apt-get install fonts-tibetan-machine
So in order to fix the other languages, you need to install the necessary font package for that language.