Re: Dillo + Netsurf broken fonts (sparc64)

On Sat, 8 Nov 2025 20:59:29 +0000
Paolo Vincenzo Olivo <[email protected]> wrote:

> Since I don't care about web browsing on such an old machine, I 
> gave up on this before trying to delving deeper into the problem, but I
> wouldn't mind seeing it fixed with the cooperation of other users here.
> 
> Regards,
> Paolo

Not related to sparc64, but I've experienced somewhat similar issue on
Linux with web browsers using Google chromium engine. This only occurred
when I disabled font anti-aliasing, enabling it again resolved the
issue. No such issues with Firefox though.

You can try playing around with settings in .fonts.conf and see if
that helps. Below is what I normally use on Linux:

$ cat .fonts.conf 
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "urn:fontconfig:fonts.dtd">
<fontconfig>

<match target="font">
        <edit name="antialias" mode="assign"><bool>true</bool></edit>
        <edit name="autohint"  mode="assign"><bool>true</bool></edit>
        <edit name="hinting"   mode="assign"><bool>true</bool></edit>
        <edit name="hintstyle" mode="assign"><const>hintfull</const></edit>
        <edit name="rgba"      mode="assign"><const>none</const></edit>
        <edit name="lcdfilter" mode="assign"><const>lcdnone</const></edit>

        <edit name="cff:no-stem-darkening" mode="assign"><bool>false</bool></edit>
        <edit name="autofitter:no-stem-darkening" mode="assign"><bool>false</bool></edit>
</match>

</fontconfig>