On 10/29/2017 06:23 PM, Alice Wonder wrote:
> On 10/29/2017 03:12 PM, H wrote:
>> On 10/29/2017 03:49 PM, Frank Cox wrote:
>>> On Sun, 29 Oct 2017 15:03:49 -0400
>>> H wrote:
>>>
>>>> I had three characters I was not able to translate and after much
>>>> hair-pulling realized to my surprise that they may be incorrectly drawn in
>>>> Centos 7.
>>> My first guess would be a faulty characters in whatever font you're using.
>>>
>>> Compare it with a working font and see if that's the problem. Type the problematic characters into a text editor. Change the font in the text editor to a different one. Did the character suddenly become correct? If so, you've found the problem.
>>>
>>> Then the short-term fix is to use a different (correct) font and the long-term solution will start with filing a bug report against the faulty font.
>>>
>> Frank, you are right. I switched from Monospace to DejaVu Sans and the three characters are correctly depicted.
>>
>> Now, how do I report the problem with the Monospace font used in CentOS 7?
>>
>>
>
> Monospace is probably not the name of the font, but is telling the application to use the default monospace font - which may be set by something else.
>
> What application is it?
>
> It's quite possible that Monospace is actually DejaVu Sans Mono or Liberation Mono or whatever the URW equivalent to Courier is.
>
> If the glyph is one that uses combining unicode code-points, many monospace fonts do not support all of them properly.
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I was using Geany, the editor, and there is a font selection Monospace Regular. Again, I am running CentOS 7 and do not believe I have downloaded any additional fonts knowingly.
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