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padota1663

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Registered: 2024-09-21

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Tofu boxes appearing in some applications

Hi everyone,

as per title, I have a weird issue since I started using Q4OS back in May, and I still haven't been able to solve it: in some (not all) applications, instead of some kind of characters (more specifically, emojis and italics) tofu boxes appear, and I already installed fonts-noto with all its dependencies:

The problem arises specifically for files and folders names, as you can see in the above screenshots.

How can I solve this issue? Am I missing some other fonts package? It's been 3 months since I started attempting to solve it, but insofar none of the solutions posted online has been of any help.

Thanks!

q4osteam

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Registered: 2015-12-06

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Re: Tofu boxes appearing in some applications

Would you tar.gz some of the directories in question and ship it via support@q4os.org ?

padota1663

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Registered: 2024-09-21

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Re: Tofu boxes appearing in some applications

Just sent you an email with a tar.gzipped folder attached (the one you see in the above screens as being displayed with tofu boxes).

I let inside some small files which names are also displayed with boxes instead of their actual characters.

Thanks again

q4osteam

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Re: Tofu boxes appearing in some applications

We have performed some testing and we can confirm a bug in Trinity desktop related to UTF-8 named files. While the file names are displayed correctly in Plasma applications and desktop, the same file names shows unknown characters in Trinity apps.

We have also made testing on pure Debian/TDE installation with the same result. So the bug is not native Q4OS, but Trinity desktop one. We would suggest you to report it for Trinity developers directly https://trinitydesktop.org/ . Thanks for reporting.

padota1663

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Re: Tofu boxes appearing in some applications

Hi,

thank you, I'll report the bug to the Trinity Dev Team.

Regards

padota1663

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Registered: 2024-09-21

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Re: Tofu boxes appearing in some applications

Hi q4osteam,

The guys at TDE Dev Team did some testing and confirmed the bug, an issue has been opened on TDE Gitea Workspace: https://mirror.git.trinitydesktop.org/g … issues/218

Here is the link at the discussion I started on their mailing list: https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman … MNKHOCY6K/

I'm keeping an eye on both of them, please do it too, so you'll be able to update TDE as soon as the bug is solved and the changes merged into TDE.

Regards
padota1663

q4osteam

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Re: Tofu boxes appearing in some applications

Thanks for reporting