Re: font missing in firefox

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Sat, Feb 25, 2023 at 11:24:01PM +0000, Robert Swindells wrote:
> 
> Thomas Klausner <wiz%NetBSD.org@localhost> wrote:
> >On Sat, Feb 25, 2023 at 08:12:14PM +0100, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> >> Hello,
> >> I noticed that my firefox on NetBSD is not displaying some fonts.
> >> For example https://www.lip6.fr/?LANG=en on the top right there are
> >> links to change language, link to webmail and to intranet. These links are
> >> UTF-8 characters that should show some icons, on linux they show up properly
> >> but on NetBSD (10-beta) it just display a rectangle with some hex in it.
> >> It's possible I'm missing some fonts on my install but from what I understood>>,
> >> firefox should download them. The debugger shows that the font used it
> >> "opensans-bold", and I didn't find a package for this.
> >
> >I think these are webfonts that are automatically loaded by the page.
> >
> > In my NetBSD firefox they are displayed and I see that they have
> > colors (the flag is a UK flag, the mailbox and lock are blue) so my
> > guess is that they are fonts using PNGs internally.
> 
> I see a blue mailbox and lock, the language selection menu is just G B
> or F R characters in blue, I don't get flags but don't see the hex in
> a rectangle for missing unicode fonts.
> 
> > For that you need a freetype2 with PNG support. The one included in
> > NetBSD does not support this (because that'd mean we need to
> > distribute libpng), but the pkgsrc version has png support enabled by
> > default.
> 
> I think this would depend on when the packages that Manuel is using were
> built.
> 
> Right now, pkgsrc-current will always build freetype2, it won't use the
> native one. The change that caused this was done on 2023-01-29, you then
> updated the package version to 2.13.0 on 2023-02-09.

I forgot to mention, I use packages built from pkgsrc-2022Q4 on netbsd-10

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