Re: [gentoo-user] Unicode characters not showing 'Hello, world' example golang.org

[Alexander Kapshuk <alexander.kapshuk@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Oct 6, 2016 at 2:52 AM, Daniel Frey <djqfrey@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10/05/2016 09:52 AM, Alexander Kapshuk wrote:
>>>
>>> Is it possible the fonts are not active on your system? `eselect
>>> fontconfig list` ?
>>>
>>> Dan
>>>
>>
>> eselect fontconfig list
>> Available fontconfig .conf files (* is enabled):
>>   [1]   10-autohint.conf
>>   [2]   10-no-sub-pixel.conf
>>   [3]   10-scale-bitmap-fonts.conf *
>>   [4]   10-sub-pixel-bgr.conf
>>   [5]   10-sub-pixel-rgb.conf
>>   [6]   10-sub-pixel-vbgr.conf
>>   [7]   10-sub-pixel-vrgb.conf
>>   [8]   10-unhinted.conf
>>   [9]   11-lcdfilter-default.conf
>>   [10]  11-lcdfilter-legacy.conf
>>   [11]  11-lcdfilter-light.conf
>>   [12]  20-unhint-small-dejavu-sans-mono.conf
>>   [13]  20-unhint-small-dejavu-sans.conf
>>   [14]  20-unhint-small-dejavu-serif.conf
>>   [15]  20-unhint-small-vera.conf *
>>   [16]  25-unhint-nonlatin.conf
>>   [17]  30-metric-aliases.conf *
>>   [18]  30-urw-aliases.conf *
>>   [19]  40-nonlatin.conf *
>>   [20]  45-latin.conf *
>>   [21]  49-sansserif.conf *
>>   [22]  50-user.conf *
>>   [23]  51-local.conf *
>>   [24]  57-dejavu-sans-mono.conf
>>   [25]  57-dejavu-sans.conf
>>   [26]  57-dejavu-serif.conf
>>   [27]  60-latin.conf *
>>   [28]  60-liberation.conf
>>   [29]  65-fonts-persian.conf *
>>   [30]  65-khmer.conf
>>   [31]  65-nonlatin.conf *
>>   [32]  69-unifont.conf *
>>   [33]  70-no-bitmaps.conf
>>   [34]  70-yes-bitmaps.conf
>>   [35]  80-delicious.conf *
>>   [36]  90-synthetic.conf *
>>   [37]  99pdftoopvp.conf
>>
>> equery -q l '*font*'
>> app-eselect/eselect-fontconfig-1.1
>> media-fonts/font-alias-1.0.3-r1
>> media-fonts/font-misc-misc-1.1.2
>> media-fonts/font-util-1.3.1
>> media-fonts/liberation-fonts-2.00.1-r1
>> media-fonts/unifont-8.0.01
>> media-fonts/urw-fonts-2.4.9
>> media-libs/fontconfig-2.11.1-r2
>> virtual/ttf-fonts-1
>> x11-apps/mkfontdir-1.0.7
>> x11-apps/mkfontscale-1.1.2
>> x11-libs/libXfont-1.5.1
>> x11-libs/libfontenc-1.1.3
>> x11-proto/fontsproto-2.1.3
>> x11-proto/xf86bigfontproto-1.2.0-r1
>>
>
> The ones without the asterisk (*) are not active on your system. You
> might want to enable the liberation fonts, as an example.
>
> Dan
>

Enabling the liberation fonts didn't result in those unicode
characters displayed in either browser for me.
I tried downloading a number of other fonts, which didn't work for me either:
media-fonts/intlfonts International X11 fixed fonts
media-fonts/font-xfree86-type1 X.Org XFree86 Type 1 font
media-fonts/efont-unicode The /efont/ Unicode Bitmap Fonts
media-fonts/corefonts Microsoft's TrueType core fonts
media-fonts/freefont OpenType and TrueType Unicode fonts from the Free
UCS Outline Fonts Project

So far, the only font that did work for me is media-fonts/unifont.

Thanks for trying to help anyway.