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I recently upgraded some packages, and now instead of readable text, some characters appear as little gray boxes. Why?

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I recently upgraded some packages, and now instead of readable text, some characters appear as little gray boxes. Why?

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A long-standing bug in many X clients and the widget libraries they use was recently brought to light by the addition of fonts encoded in ISO 10646-1 (“Unicode” in common parlance) to the X Window System. The details are highly technical.