Strange characters on websites after setting preferred in fonts.conf

After setting preferred fonts in fonts.conf, websites are displaying all sorts of misplaced characters like arabic glyphs, a Tux icon, english glyphs that are out-of-place, like such:
http://imageshack.com/a/img661/548/tIVwdh.png
I'm just using one prefered font for serif and one for sans. But I don't understand why arabic and english glyphs would be appearing. Do I need to add a symbol font to my preferred fonts? Or what? Thx.
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You're editing /etc/fonts/fonts.conf?, because that's supposed to break the configuration. The wiki-recommended way is to create a file in /etc/fonts/conf.d such as 60-preferences.conf, and put the preferences there. Mine which works on my box contains
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
<fontconfig>
<alias>
<family>sans-serif</family>
<prefer>
<family>Ubuntu</family>
</prefer>
</alias>
<alias>
<family>serif</family>
<prefer>
<family>Ubuntu</family>
</prefer>
</alias>
<alias>
<family>monospace</family>
<prefer>
<family>Ubuntu Mono</family>
</prefer>
</alias>
</fontconfig>
Additionally, if you edited /etc/fonts/fonts.conf, delete or move it somewhere else, and reinstall the default fonts.conf by running
pacman -S fontconfig
Last edited by mojangsta (2015-04-18 15:55:31)

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