I've been having graphical browsers display squares
with hex characters in them rather than characters in
Chinese etc. alphabets...what do I have to do to have
all the characters available to display?...is it a browser
or OS deficiency?

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Am 10.10.2022 um 00:43:01 Uhr schrieb Louis Epstein:

I've been having graphical browsers display squares
with hex characters in them rather than characters in
Chinese etc. alphabets...what do I have to do to have
all the characters available to display?...is it a browser
or OS deficiency?

Some fonts are not installed that provide these characters. I don't
know how BSD handles that, but on other distributions these are
organized in packages like xfonts-*.

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On 2022-10-10, Louis Epstein <[email protected]> wrote:

I've been having graphical browsers display squares
with hex characters in them rather than characters in
Chinese etc. alphabets...what do I have to do to have
all the characters available to display?

You need to install additional fonts to cover all characters.

Personally, I just install noto-2.0 (from x11-fonts/noto) because
it has near universal coverage, but there are numerous other fonts
in the FreeBSD port collection that provide some character ranges,
such as Chinese, if you're picky.

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Christian "naddy" Weisgerber [email protected]

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Christian Weisgerber <[email protected]> wrote:

On 2022-10-10, Louis Epstein <[email protected]> wrote:

I've been having graphical browsers display squares
with hex characters in them rather than characters in
Chinese etc. alphabets...what do I have to do to have
all the characters available to display?

You need to install additional fonts to cover all characters.

Personally, I just install noto-2.0 (from x11-fonts/noto) because
it has near universal coverage, but there are numerous other fonts
in the FreeBSD port collection that provide some character ranges,
such as Chinese, if you're picky.

The big5 sets for example?
Emojis are also in short supply.

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The World Trade Center towers MUST rise again,
at least as tall as before...or terror has triumphed.

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Louis Epstein <[email protected]> wrote:

Christian Weisgerber <[email protected]> wrote:

On 2022-10-10, Louis Epstein <[email protected]> wrote:

I've been having graphical browsers display squares
with hex characters in them rather than characters in
Chinese etc. alphabets...what do I have to do to have
all the characters available to display?

You need to install additional fonts to cover all characters.

Personally, I just install noto-2.0 (from x11-fonts/noto) because
it has near universal coverage, but there are numerous other fonts
in the FreeBSD port collection that provide some character ranges,
such as Chinese, if you're picky.

The big5 sets for example?
Emojis are also in short supply.

I just installed noto...the following were already installed
as of early September (some upgrades since):

font-adobe-100dpi-1.0.3_4 X.Org Adobe 100dpi font
font-adobe-75dpi-1.0.3_4 X.Org Adobe 75dpi font font-adobe-utopia-100dpi-1.0.4_4 X.Org Adobe Utopia 100dpi font font-adobe-utopia-75dpi-1.0.4_4 X.Org Adobe Utopia 75dpi font font-adobe-utopia-type1-1.0.4_4 X.Org Adobe Utopia Type1 font
font-alias-1.0.4 X.Org Font aliases
font-arabic-misc-1.0.3_4 X.Org miscellaneous Arabic fonts font-bh-100dpi-1.0.3_4 X.Org Bigelow Holmes 100dpi font font-bh-75dpi-1.0.3_4 X.Org Bigelow Holmes 75dpi font font-bh-lucidatypewriter-100dpi-1.0.3_4 X.Org Bigelow Holmes Lucida TypeWriter 100dpi font
font-bh-lucidatypewriter-75dpi-1.0.3_4 X.Org Bigelow Holmes Lucida TypeWriter 75dpi font
font-bh-ttf-1.0.3_4 X.Org Bigelow & Holmes TTF font font-bh-type1-1.0.3_4 X.Org Bigelow Holmes Type1 font font-bitstream-100dpi-1.0.3_4 X.Org Bitstream Vera 100dpi font font-bitstream-75dpi-1.0.3_4 X.Org Bitstream Vera 75dpi font font-bitstream-type1-1.0.3_4 X.Org Bitstream Vera Type1 font font-cronyx-cyrillic-1.0.3_4 X.Org Cronyx Cyrillic font font-cursor-misc-1.0.3_4 X.Org miscellaneous Cursor fonts font-daewoo-misc-1.0.3_4 X.Org miscellaneous Daewoo fonts font-dec-misc-1.0.3_4 X.Org miscellaneous Dec fonts font-ibm-type1-1.0.3_4 X.Org IBM Type1 font
font-isas-misc-1.0.3_4 X.Org miscellaneous ISAS fonts font-jis-misc-1.0.3_4 X.Org miscellaneous JIS fonts font-micro-misc-1.0.3_4 X.Org miscellaneous Micro fonts font-misc-cyrillic-1.0.3_4 X.Org miscellaneous Cyrillic font font-misc-ethiopic-1.0.4 X.Org miscellaneous Ethiopic font font-misc-meltho-1.0.3_4 X.Org miscellaneous Meltho font font-misc-misc-1.1.2_4 X.Org miscellaneous Misc fonts font-mutt-misc-1.0.3_4 X.Org miscellaneous Mutt fonts font-schumacher-misc-1.1.2_4 X.Org miscellaneous Schumacher fonts font-screen-cyrillic-1.0.4_4 X.Org Screen Cyrillic font font-sony-misc-1.0.3_4 X.Org miscellaneous Sony fonts font-sun-misc-1.0.3_4 X.Org miscellaneous Sun fonts
font-util-1.3.2 Create an index of X font files in a directory font-winitzki-cyrillic-1.0.3_4 X.Org Winitzki Cyrillic font font-xfree86-type1-1.0.4_4 X.Org XFree86 Type1 font
fontconfig-2.13.94_2,1 XML-based font configuration API for X Windows freetype2-2.12.1 Free and portable TrueType font rendering engine fribidi-1.0.12 Free Implementation of the Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm
iso8879-1986_3 Character entity sets from ISO 8879:1986 (SGML) libXfont-1.5.4_2,2 X font library
libXfont2-2.0.5 X font library
libXft-2.3.4 Client-sided font API for X applications xorg-fonts-7.7_1 X.org fonts meta-port
xorg-fonts-100dpi-7.7 X.Org 100dpi bitmap fonts
xorg-fonts-75dpi-7.7 X.Org 75dpi bitmap fonts
xorg-fonts-cyrillic-7.7 X.Org Cyrillic bitmap fonts xorg-fonts-miscbitmaps-7.7 X.Org miscellaneous bitmap fonts xorg-fonts-truetype-7.7_1 X.Org TrueType fonts
xorg-fonts-type1-7.7 X.Org Type1 fonts

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On 2022-10-10, Louis Epstein <[email protected]> wrote:

I just installed noto...the following were already installed
as of early September (some upgrades since):

I see you grepped for lower case "font".

Those are mostly legacy bitmapped fonts that aren't really used by
applications written in this century. Most likely you also have
dejavu installed, which then serves as the default TrueType font,
but only covers European languages in the Latin and related alphabets.

Anyway, Noto will cover the rest.

noto-2.0 Google Noto Fonts family (meta port)
noto-basic-2.0_1 Google Noto Fonts family (Basic)
noto-emoji-2.034 Google Noto Fonts family (Emoji)
noto-extra-2.0 Google Noto Fonts family (Extra)
noto-hk-2.002 Google Noto Fonts family (Traditional Chinese Hong Kong) noto-jp-2.002 Google Noto Fonts family (Japanese)
noto-kr-2.002 Google Noto Fonts family (Korean)
noto-sc-2.002 Google Noto Fonts family (Simplified Chinese)
noto-tc-2.002 Google Noto Fonts family (Traditional Chinese)

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On Tuesday, October 11, 2022 at 9:30:06 AM UTC-4, Christian Weisgerber wrote:

On 2022-10-10, Louis Epstein <[email protected]> wrote:

I just installed noto...the following were already installed
as of early September (some upgrades since):

I see you grepped for lower case "font".

Those are mostly legacy bitmapped fonts that aren't really used by applications written in this century. Most likely you also have
dejavu installed, which then serves as the default TrueType font,
but only covers European languages in the Latin and related alphabets.

Anyway, Noto will cover the rest.

noto-2.0 Google Noto Fonts family (meta port)
noto-basic-2.0_1 Google Noto Fonts family (Basic)
noto-emoji-2.034 Google Noto Fonts family (Emoji)
noto-extra-2.0 Google Noto Fonts family (Extra)
noto-hk-2.002 Google Noto Fonts family (Traditional Chinese Hong Kong) noto-jp-2.002 Google Noto Fonts family (Japanese)
noto-kr-2.002 Google Noto Fonts family (Korean)
noto-sc-2.002 Google Noto Fonts family (Simplified Chinese)
noto-tc-2.002 Google Noto Fonts family (Traditional Chinese)
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grep "Google nono fonts" | wtf

nono-fonts-666.666 Google Nono Fonts family (pr0n edition)

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