Finding and downloading missing font

Michael Cronenworth mike at cchtml.com
Wed Sep 17 14:08:45 UTC 2014


On 09/16/2014 09:05 PM, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
> That's what I thought.
>
> Nevertheless LibreOffice identifies the undisplayable characters as
> Lohit Devanagari on both my system and MC's and MC appears to have got a
> correct display of them on his system, which I don't get.  Strange.

It's unfortunate that the PackageKit font helper isn't telling you the font to 
install.

Anyway, I traced what fontconfig was matching for those symbols. The "Free Sans" 
font provides them.

# yum install gnu-free-sans-fonts



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