Give these a try.

Updated Font Here

Yep, that works:

What did you do!?

I converted from one font type to another, then back to .ttf. Another problem was that both fonts had the same internal font family name, so when you placed them both in the GIMP folder, they became two of the same font.

You tricky devil you... I'll try it and see.

Did you use Fontforge to do this Tux? Did you change the name in one of them? Anyway, nice job, I still want to try this converting stuff too.

I did two, one with the Butterscotch and this metal one and why is that number in the center, It happened on both of them.


This is from same settings but different font. BTW, font name is Viks Dear Love


Could someone try this with the Viking font to see if the numbers appear? Thanks Dear love font attached Dear Love Font

I get the same unsupported character glyph if I use either font in GIMP 2.8.2 on Windows 7, BUT they work properly on GIMP 2.6.7

Kevin

Getting stranger all the time, Did you use the fonts Tux posted Kevin?

I tried converting it to otf, but it didn't work. Never thought to convert it back to ttf.

Yes

'0020' is the hexadecimal representation of 32, which is the ASCII and Unicode code of the space character. But I don't get this in my own "fixed" font.

O, I don't understand that stuff, so I guess this font is just plain Cranky. Grr

I just tested it and space is an invalid char on my system too. Must have happened in the conversion.

You managed to get it to work though.

I used FontForge to copy in another character and cleared it to make a space.

The fonts have been renamed so remove the old ones before using these.

Have you seen, Celtic Garamond the 2nd?

No I haven't, thanks Odin.

Thanks Odin, I like that one.

Maybe it's a little late, but I will just add some extra info.

I have my own font engine and I tested this font "Viking Younger Runes".

This font has some bad points. This kind of problem is very common in non-professional fonts, since it's easy to forget some garbage when creating glyphs in font editors.

Most bad fonts I have dealt with work on Windows font rasterizer, and some of them have much worse errors than this one. This kind of problem is so usual than some years ago I also needed to code, in my font rasterizer, some algorithms to remove bad data. All times I have debugged a particular problematic font, the bad data were not visible when drawing.

If a program you are using requests a missing font (because it's not there or it couldn't be loaded), most font engines use a default one. In Windows XP, the default font is Arial or MS Sans Serif, depending on some extra factors.