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    Tildes are shown as a dash

    With most fonts, when the size is less than 11, tildes (ã ẽ ĩ õ ũ ñ) are shown as a dash. Consequently, I cannot distinguish tilde (ã) from macron (ā).

    This problem occurs on Firefox (tildes are dashes on Gmail), but it does not occur on Libre Office using the same fonts and the same size. Furthermore, this problem does not occur on Firefox on another distro.

    I am using Lubuntu 14.04.

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    Re: Tildes are shown as a dash

    Patient: Doctor, doctor, it hurts when I do this
    Doctor: Well, don't do that.

    How about you keep your font size greater than 11?

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    Re: Tildes are shown as a dash

    The font size is defined by the web page that I load, therefore I cannot change it.

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    Re: Tildes are shown as a dash

    Quote Originally Posted by Shiryu View Post
    The font size is defined by the web page that I load, therefore I cannot change it.
    Actually, you can. ctrl-+ to enlarge, ctrl-- to reduce and ctrl-0 (thats zero, not capital 'o') to reset. Additionally you could set up a user css file for your browser to override settings on web pages, but that's probably overkill ...

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    Re: Tildes are shown as a dash

    This is a known bug:
    https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...pe/+bug/839189
    https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...pe/+bug/655619

    It is partially improved by deleting all files with "10-hinting" in the name located in /etc/fonts/conf.d/ and adding a file with the following content:
    <?xml version="1.0"?>
    <!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
    <fontconfig>
    <match target="font">
    <edit name="hinting" mode="assign">
    <bool>true</bool>
    </edit>
    <edit name="autohint" mode="assign">
    <bool>false</bool>
    </edit>
    <edit name="hintstyle" mode="assign">
    <const>hintfull</const>
    </edit>
    </match>
    </fontconfig>

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