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Unicode arrow shows as question mark in thumbnail

Open joelostblom opened this issue 1 year ago • 2 comments

The unicode arrow example shows a question mark in the thumbnail (https://altair-viz.github.io/gallery/index.html#line-charts):

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The actual example still shows the correct chart:

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joelostblom avatar Jan 22 '24 18:01 joelostblom

Out of curiosity, have you tried generating this locally? vl-convert should be able to handle this as long as the chosen font has the character included, but the font that's bundled with vl-convert (Liberation Sans) probably doesn't have it. We might be able to install additional fonts in CI.

jonmmease avatar Jan 22 '24 18:01 jonmmease

You're right Jon, when building locally it looks good:

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joelostblom avatar Jan 22 '24 19:01 joelostblom