#Goldendict-ng UI not rendering properly

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tribal timber
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I installed the goldendict-ng-git package from the aur. When I open it the UI looks like this. This is happening both on my pc and my laptop. Is this a problem with the fonts and if so how do I find out which fornt to install to make this work?

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pseudo fog
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Maybe a cjk font

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like noto-fonts-cjk

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sudo pacman -S noto-fonts noto-fonts-cjk noto-fonts-emoji noto-fonts-extra will install pretty much every font you ned to not get mojibake

tribal timber
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already have all those

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pseudo fog
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fc-cache -vf

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as root

tribal timber
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Font directories:
    /root/.local/share/fonts
    /usr/local/share/fonts
    /usr/share/fonts
    /root/.fonts
    /usr/share/fonts/TTF
    /usr/share/fonts/adobe-source-code-pro
    /usr/share/fonts/cantarell
    /usr/share/fonts/encodings
    /usr/share/fonts/gnu-free
    /usr/share/fonts/gsfonts
    /usr/share/fonts/liberation
    /usr/share/fonts/noto
    /usr/share/fonts/noto-cjk
    /usr/share/fonts/encodings/large
/root/.local/share/fonts: skipping, no such directory
/usr/local/share/fonts: skipping, no such directory
/usr/share/fonts: caching, new cache contents: 12 fonts, 9 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/TTF: caching, new cache contents: 373 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/adobe-source-code-pro: caching, new cache contents: 30 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/cantarell: caching, new cache contents: 6 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/encodings: caching, new cache contents: 0 fonts, 1 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/encodings/large: caching, new cache contents: 0 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/gnu-free: caching, new cache contents: 12 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/gsfonts: caching, new cache contents: 35 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/liberation: caching, new cache contents: 12 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/noto: caching, new cache contents: 2137 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/noto-cjk: caching, new cache contents: 80 fonts, 0 dirs
/root/.fonts: skipping, no such directory
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/usr/share/fonts/TTF: skipping, looped directory detected
/usr/share/fonts/adobe-source-code-pro: skipping, looped directory detected
/usr/share/fonts/cantarell: skipping, looped directory detected
/usr/share/fonts/encodings: skipping, looped directory detected
/usr/share/fonts/gnu-free: skipping, looped directory detected
/usr/share/fonts/gsfonts: skipping, looped directory detected
/usr/share/fonts/liberation: skipping, looped directory detected
/usr/share/fonts/noto: skipping, looped directory detected
/usr/share/fonts/noto-cjk: skipping, looped directory detected
/usr/share/fonts/encodings/large: skipping, looped directory detected
/var/cache/fontconfig: cleaning cache directory
/root/.cache/fontconfig: not cleaning non-existent cache directory
/root/.fontconfig: not cleaning non-existent cache directory
fc-cache: succeeded
pseudo fog
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still broken?

tribal timber
tribal timber
pseudo fog
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Run it from the terminal, maybe it'll print something

Also run it with strace and read through the output

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Make sure your locale configuration is correct

pseudo fog
tribal timber
spring currentBOT
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hm7 received a thank you cookie!

tribal timber
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can you please explain to me what fc-cache -vf does?

tribal timber
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it's worked for my pc but its not working for my laptop

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perhaps it was a coincidence and not the fc-cache command

pseudo fog
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Updates the font cache which has to be run after font changes
On arch pacman runs the hook /usr/share/libalpm/hooks/fontconfig.hook which runs fc-cache as root
I don't know why running it as user was necessary in your case, maybe you have some font configuration in your home?
Look for paths in your home in fc-cache -vf
Look at the fontconfig config locations in $HOME https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Font_configuration

Font configuration