f becomes strange symbol after install julia mono

[brianguenter]

I just installed Julia Mono on my windows 11 machine, with fonts downloaded from this repo a few days ago. f is now being displayed as a strange symbol in VSCode (see picture). Has anybody seen this before and is there a simple fix?

Just deleted JuliaMono from the fonts directory and downloaded the fonts again from here and reinstalled them. Problem is still there.

The f character appears to be the only one affected:

[cormullion]

I see you've got various alternates - 'a', 'g', 'j', 'r', - did you select these, or is it some kind of default? Anyway, I'd guess it's caused by font cache-ing, which is fairly aggressive, right down to OS-level.

[brianguenter]

I did not consciously select the various alternatives 'a', 'g', 'j', 'r'. Didn't realize they were alternatives.

I disabled the Windows font caching service, deleted the font cache and restarted the caching service to rebuild the font cache. But the strange character substituted for f is still there.

This seems like a long shot but could this possibly be related to a graphics driver issue? My driver has been unstable lately with occasional lockups and black screens.

[cormullion]

I did not consciously select the various alternatives 'a', 'g', 'j', 'r'. Didn't realize they were alternatives.

You usually choose these by adding lines to the settings.json but if you didn't specify them, it's interesting...

I've only seen issues similar to yours when I tried to update fonts without quitting applications first (on a Mac, the font daemons are reluctant to let go of old versions in memory). I can't think of another plausible reason for single glyphs to look so odd (apart from cosmic rays😀).

Sorry I can't help more at present...

[brianguenter]

Thanks anyway. I'll close the issue then.