Finding and downloading missing font

Jonathan Ryshpan jonrysh at pacbell.net
Thu Sep 18 00:32:09 UTC 2014


On Wed, 2014-09-17 at 09:08 -0500, Michael Cronenworth wrote:
> 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

Works perfectly.  Thanks.




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