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Typefaces and Fonts: Why is Palatino displaying "2" with a vertical line that makes it look like "4"?

• Fixed - see end of this text (click on "more"). I've noticed this on several pages recently and it's independent of what browser I use.  You can see it here http://www.satine.org/archives/2011/01/01/the-care-and-feeding-of-the-android-gpu/ for example. Palatino has been around for ages (I used it to typeset my thesis!) and it didn't have that tick.  What's happening?  Have I got some weird problem with corrupted fonts (this is KDE)?  Is this considered attractive by someone?  Can anyone else even see the problem? Here's a screenshot of that page (see the year): And here's the digits 1-9 (inserted by editing via Chrome's dev window): (I don't understand why the "J" has changed alignment either, except I have been messing around with fonts trying to reset everything) More Info: Running Firefox on a separate machine, but displaying on my laptop (where the problem is) via X shows normal digits.  Firefox, Chrome and Konqueror on the laptop all show digits as above.  It doesn't depend on aliasing or sub-pixel rendering, or on locale. Aha.  Looking at the output of > fc-list -v Palatino [...] file: "/usr/share/texmf/fonts/type1/public/figbas/plrj.pfb"(s) [...] And searching for that file name on the 'net I find http://cg.scs.carleton.ca/~luc/tex.html which says: [...] figbas package for TeX, which contains three Postscript Type 1 mini-fonts cmrj, cmssj, plrj (and associated map file and metric files) with just five "ligatures" for the combinations 2+, 4+, 5+, 6+, and 9+ used in figured-bass notation in baroque music. The fonts are intended for use with Computer Modern (cmr), Computer Modern Sans (cmss), and Palatino/Palladio (pplr), respectively. And those are the digits I am seeing. Deleting that file, re-running fonts-config (which seems to be an OpenSuse utility that does all font configuration) and re-starting X fixes the problem. This was eventually fixed at source: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=662159

• Answer:

  I believe that is not a 2 or a 4 but rather is Unicode 2463, the symbol for Jupiter.  The styling for this website in your example might be incorrectly rendering as the HTML for U+2463 in your browser, similar to the way other characters can be mis-rendered through odd ways of injecting data.