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mashru · 08-20-2013, 11:09 AM

The problem appears to be around the way Sigil picks mono spaced fonts. The default mono spaced font used. By Sigil is Consolas. Even when the two computer had identical Consolas fonts, the problem persisted. It appears that Sigil either due to a bug or some other valid reasons, does not use Consolas but ends up using some other monospaced font which does not have non Latin characters.

The solution, a brute force one though, is to replace fonts on the problematic computer with font files I had on the computer where Sigil worked correctly. Obviously, windows won't allow to replace all fonts easily. I deleted (after creating a backup) all fonts windows allowed me to delete. I was left with about a dozen font family consisting of 200 fonts. I copied fonts from the working computer. Reboot. And Sigil started displaying correctly.

Still don't know which font it was looking for. But problem is solved for now.

08-20-2013, 11:09 AM	#11
mashru Junior Member Posts: 7 Karma: 12 Join Date: Aug 2013 Device: ipad, android and kindle	Found Solution The problem appears to be around the way Sigil picks mono spaced fonts. The default mono spaced font used. By Sigil is Consolas. Even when the two computer had identical Consolas fonts, the problem persisted. It appears that Sigil either due to a bug or some other valid reasons, does not use Consolas but ends up using some other monospaced font which does not have non Latin characters. The solution, a brute force one though, is to replace fonts on the problematic computer with font files I had on the computer where Sigil worked correctly. Obviously, windows won't allow to replace all fonts easily. I deleted (after creating a backup) all fonts windows allowed me to delete. I was left with about a dozen font family consisting of 200 fonts. I copied fonts from the working computer. Reboot. And Sigil started displaying correctly. Still don't know which font it was looking for. But problem is solved for now.