Subject: Re: bug#32835: Icecat is missing fonts (on foreign distro)

From: Ricardo Wurmus <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2018 22:05:26 +0200

Björn Höfling <[email-masked]> writes:

> On Tue, 25 Sep 2018 11:25:40 +0200
> Ricardo Wurmus <[email-masked]> wrote:
>
>> Björn Höfling <[email-masked]> writes:
>> 
>> > When Icecat is up, it looks "normal" and can be used normally [the
>> > more images a site uses, the better the user experience is :-)],
>> > just that ALL letters are just boxes with numbers in them (i.e.
>> > what you usually see only partially when some wired UTF-sign is not
>> > installed).  
>> 
>> Does this happen even after installing fonts and running “fc-cache
>> -f”?
>> 
>
> Do I have to do that in Guix or on the foreign distro?

On the foreign distro.

> If in Guix, where is fc-cache and which font package should I choose?

The “fontconfig” package provides fc-cache.  See the subsection “X11
Fonts” under “Application Setup” in the manual.

-- 
Ricardo