www-client/firefox-31.4.0 and media-fonts/dejavu-2.34 : when I let stable upgrade from media-fonts/dejavu-2.33 -> 2.34 stable firefox starts displaying ligatures and they are incorrect glyphs. Certificate displays as Certi3cate with I think that might be a greek epislon, I have also seen omega, cyrillic letters, what look like APL symbols. I googled this mozilla reported that some san-serif fonts have bad tables and was contemplating a blacklist back around 2007 see https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=404971 and they seemed to regard it as a font problem. I have rebuit firefox and the font and I am as of this morning current stable on them both and the problem still appears. I orginally reported this on bug 521704 the media-fonts/dejavu-2.34 stable request. There does not appear to be a way to request a package be moved back to unstable until fixed however. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Allow media-fonts/dejavu to upgrade to latest stable on AMD64 2. 3. Actual Results: look at a webpage in firefox I used a local page in my /usr/share/doc specifically getmail-4.46.0/configuration.html but it happens on many pages. I suspect that they are pages that don't specify a font, and for some reason firefox defaults to dejavu, where the current version claims it does something it does not work right for. Expected Results: display the page with the correct glyphs for the ligatures or not display ligatures I worked around this by manually masking =media-fonts/dejavu-2.34 and things go back to normal. emerge --info : will create attachment when pasted as requested comment is too long
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I can't reproduce this. Anyone else?
Well I also saw someone else with the same problem on the stable request bug https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=521704#c4 at the time I was running firefox-31.3.0 and he was running 34.0.5-r1 I was hoping that interium updates would have fixed so I tried unmasking media-fonts/dejavu again and tested it, alas it is still broken. This is on a fairly new computer I got at the end of November 2014 And have done a new gentoo installation on specifically from stage3-amd64-20141127.tar.bz2 Ok, I have found that removing the .mozilla directory caused it to work normally. Reasonable fix: Since I did not like loosing everything I found that running firefox help->Troubleshooting Information->Reset Firefox would also cause the ligature to be turned off, but would still save my tabs, bookmarks, passwords, cookies and history. So that works well enough for most purposes. I still don't know what firefox was doing, googling seemed to indicate a problem with fonts, maybe an out of date config option was jamming things up somewhere. and I have no idea why it seemed to depend on the version of dejavu... it may be that after resetting it is nolonger using dejavu as a default font. Sorry for the noise. hopefully anyone else who is still having this problem will find this and be helped.
