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Font has been changed
It's not your fonts, it's your system locale. run locale to get your current locale configuration.
You can use something like LC_TIME=fr_FR ls -l to get France's format in date column as an example ...
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"CUNEIFORM SIGN LUGAL" is displayed just as rectangle. How can I fix it?
Under Trusty Tahr here is a nice font package that will allow you to see these characters:
sudo apt-get install ttf-ancient-fonts
I tested this on my own Trusty Tahr installation and below is a ...
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Tofu character on Workbench
This type of problems usually happen when you have invalid permissions on font files. The solution lies in detecting the font file and correcting its permission.
Since, Most of the font files reside ...
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Android Studio doesn't render Ubuntu Mono Font well
The problem is not anti-aliasing - all of your examples show the text is anti-aliased fine.
The difference is in an aspect of font rendering called "hinting" - the top Ubuntu Mono example shows a ...
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How can I install Gangal's font in Linux?
I solve that by following steps.
Step1:- I copy Gangal's fonts from /home/your_username/.wine/drive_c/windows/fonts folder. (I was already installed Baraha and Sopi marathi) or यॆथुन आपण गांगल फाॅन्ट ...
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Linux File Names converted to blank rect after running sudo fc-cache -f -v
If you don't have permissions to the folder, use sudo to elevate your permissions and give you access to the directory where you get permission denied errors.
If the [font] files were added in a home ...
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I want to know what is font-family in Ubuntu!
The default font in Ubuntu is called "Ubuntu" (surprise ;-) ).
You can find more details about it here: https://design.ubuntu.com/font
The font is distributed under an open source license and you ...
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wget or curl commands to download ubuntu fonts?
To install the Ubuntu Font Family manually using wget use the following single command by copying the entire command and pasting into a Terminal window:
wget http://font.ubuntu.com/download/ubuntu-...
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Install transitional package or real package?
Transitional packages are a backwards-compatibility measure. They are provided so that anything that depends on the old package name but actually relied on functionality that's preserved in the new ...
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How to install nepali unicode traditional font in ubuntu 16.4?
You can make use of IBus.
Install the ibus-m17n package:
sudo apt install ibus-m17n
Relogin
Go to System Settings -> Text Entry and add Nepali (trad (m17n)) (Ibus).
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Unable to get profont to work on Ubuntu 16.04
Follow these steps to get them installed:
Download the fonts from here
Run sudo rm /etc/fonts/conf.d/70-no-bitmaps.conf to remove that file, in my case I simply moved it to ~/
If you look in /etc/...
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Render webpages in Ubuntu font
As suggested by Zacharee in the comment above the chrome extension 'Force custom fonts' does the job of changing the font on every webpage as you like and works better than the inbuilt chrome ...
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Downloading Google Fonts
An easier method is to get them directly from Github: https://github.com/google/fonts/tree/master/apache. Each font has its own subdirectory, with uncompressed font files.
There's also a ZIP file of ...
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Can I use the ubuntu font in a commercial logo design?
You are most welcome to use the Ubuntu Font Family, in your documents, graphic designs, logos, or company stationary. We'd like as many people as possible to have a better quality reading experience ...
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