Character issues with Tor Browser 11.0.1 on Fedora 35 XFCE4

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Running Tor Browser version 11.0.1 on Fedora 35 XFCE Workstation is yielding broken characters in the menus and other places for me.

Screenshot of the issue: https://i.imgur.com/qSjAy23.png

This was working fine for me on a previous version of Tor Browser (10) on this XFCE env. in Fedora 34, fwiw. I am also running this as non-root.

I tried downloading a fresh version of Tor Browser and when I do the initial launch the same issue occurs. I am wondering if this is an issue on XFCE environments in particular due to some strange encoding irregularity.

Here are some system details I am running with:

OS: Fedora
Kernel: x86_64 Linux 5.14.17-301.fc35.x86_64
DE: Xfce4
WM: Xfwm4
WM Theme: Default
Font: Sans 10
CPU: Intel Core i5-2520 @ 4x 3.2GHz
GPU: Mesa Intel(R) HD Graphics 3000

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Hi, it’s a know issue: Fonts don't render (#40382) · Issues · The Tor Project / Applications / tor-browser-build · GitLab

Try this workaround.

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Ah, I missed that - thank you @gus .

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Hi,

I came here to report the same bug (on Fedora 33 and 34)

Thanks for the links, I’ll try the workaround

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Hi, it’s a know issue, will be solved in some versions later.

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Hi, I’m sure it will, but when?
For now, I’m happy as I applied the workaround (so easy) and have the fonts

This issue is easy to solve but without font, I consider it as a main issue : I am not expecting that new users will join the tor browser project (I don’t know how many will pause its usage).

############## the workaround pointed by [Maven Fonts don't render (#40382) · Issues · The Tor Project / Applications / tor-browser-build · GitLab)

In “fonts.conf”. On my system(Fedora 35) file’s path is “~/.local/share/torbrowser/tbb/x86_64/tor-browser_en-US/Browser/TorBrowser/Data/fontconfig/fonts.conf”

In first line: <?xml version="1.0"?>

Adding “1” to version number is fixing the issue: <?xml version="11.0"?>

Seems logical since problem occurred right after Tor Browser was updated to 11.0 version

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Path on no install tor browser:
<path_where_tor_is_located/tor-browser_en-US/Browser/TorBrowser/Data/fontconfig/fonts.conf

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I just posted a question and instead I used your solution and my problem is solved. Thank you Leto