Thunderbird - Disappearing Characters

[Ed Greshko]

On 12/09/2011 09:03 PM, Christopher A. Williams wrote:
> I had a similar thing happen once or twice with FireFox.
>
> It turns out that there was some sort of goofy permissions issue with
> the fonts in /usr/share/fonts
>
> I did the following and got things working:
>
> chown -R root:root /usr/share/fonts/*
> chmod -R 755 /usr/share/fonts/*
>
> This might be a bit of overkill on permissions, but I have not had a
> problem since...
>

Since the ownership/permissions are static, I can't see how changing
them would resolve my issue.  The characters are just "suddenly" not
there.  I say "suddenly" since I only notice it on opening the one
account.  No idea when/how they went "missing".

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