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Am I the only one on Linux that has Firefox able to display any characters correctly (e.g. in this case the Japanese chars, arabic/russian chars on some other p

Am I the only one on Linux that has Firefox able to display any characters correctly (e.g. in this case the Japanese chars, arabic/russian chars on some other pages, etc...), but Chrome not being able to at all? (it's since months that I scan websites while writing a prototype sw and it's always been like this when I did some random checks in the browsers)

microcolonel 8y ago
Yeah, you should probably report that somewhere, probably to your distribution maintainer (assuming you're talking about a distro Chromium build, and not Google's Chrome blob). Google distributes Chrome on Linux on tens of millions of devices every year, it displays fonts just fine for almost everyone.
- zepearl 8y ago
  Thx - but yes, it's really Chrome and Gentoo (my distro) downloads of course Chrome's blob => weird that I have this problem, isn't it?
  - microcolonel 8y ago
    > Thx - but yes, it's really Chrome and Gentoo (my distro) downloads of course Chrome's blob => weird that I have this problem, isn't it? Chances are that it's not that weird. If you have enough memory I recommend building Chromium from source. There's probably some library somewhere which is behaving in a way which packaged Chrome isn't fond of (and it seems like maybe the maintainer of the chrome binary package you're using needs to update it in some way). (Aside: funny enough, Chrome OS is Gentoo-based IIRC.)
zerocrates 8y ago
I haven't had that problem, on the same distro even! I do remember them often differing in what fonts they would select by default, and Chrome often seemed to pick a worse-looking option... but I never really had any problems with the text simply not rendering.
suspectdoubloon 8y ago
I had these issues on Fedora, especially around emoji. Firefox was fine but Chrome was not. I ended having to play around with some font settings to force chrome to use noto fonts.
- unsignedint 8y ago
  The reason Firefox displays emoji while Chrome doesn't is probably because Firefox actually ships with fonts for them.

microcolonel 8y ago

Yeah, you should probably report that somewhere, probably to your distribution maintainer (assuming you're talking about a distro Chromium build, and not Google's Chrome blob). Google distributes Chrome on Linux on tens of millions of devices every year, it displays fonts just fine for almost everyone.

zepearl 8y ago
Thx - but yes, it's really Chrome and Gentoo (my distro) downloads of course Chrome's blob => weird that I have this problem, isn't it?
- microcolonel 8y ago
  > Thx - but yes, it's really Chrome and Gentoo (my distro) downloads of course Chrome's blob => weird that I have this problem, isn't it? Chances are that it's not that weird. If you have enough memory I recommend building Chromium from source. There's probably some library somewhere which is behaving in a way which packaged Chrome isn't fond of (and it seems like maybe the maintainer of the chrome binary package you're using needs to update it in some way). (Aside: funny enough, Chrome OS is Gentoo-based IIRC.)

zerocrates 8y ago

I haven't had that problem, on the same distro even! I do remember them often differing in what fonts they would select by default, and Chrome often seemed to pick a worse-looking option... but I never really had any problems with the text simply not rendering.

suspectdoubloon 8y ago

I had these issues on Fedora, especially around emoji. Firefox was fine but Chrome was not. I ended having to play around with some font settings to force chrome to use noto fonts.

unsignedint 8y ago
The reason Firefox displays emoji while Chrome doesn't is probably because Firefox actually ships with fonts for them.