Fonts

Required to display/render Non-English Chars, Emojis, Symbols etc.

Required to display/render Non-English Chars, Emojis, Symbols etc.

Portable packages may have font rendering issues due to missing fonts or fontconfig.

Common Issues

• Missing fonts (squares or boxes instead of characters)

• Wrong font fallbacks

• CJK characters not rendering

• Emojis showing as boxes

Solutions

Install Common Fonts

Debian/Ubuntu:

sudo apt install fonts-noto fonts-liberation fonts-noto-color-emoji

Fedora:

sudo dnf install google-noto-fonts-common liberation-fonts google-noto-emoji-fonts

Arch:

sudo pacman -S noto-fonts noto-fonts-emoji ttf-liberation

Set Font Environment

export FONTCONFIG_PATH=/etc/fonts