[Discussion] GUI fonts broken inside ubuntu:18.04 container

[gottfried-github]

Describe the bug
When I run applications from within the running ubuntu:18.04 container, the GUIs of those applications display one and the same weird symbol instead of the characters.

To Reproduce
distrobox create -i ubuntu:18.04 -n ubuntu_18-04

distrobox enter ubuntu_18-04

From inside the running container:

E.g., install font-manager:
sudo apt-get install font-manager

Run font-manager:
font-manager

This also gives me another error and quickly quits, but before that it displays the broken fonts. I also launched Tizen Studio in this way and it doesn't quit but displays the same behavior with regards to broken fonts.

Expected behavior
The GUI of applications, launched from within the container should display normal fonts.

Logs
podman logs -f ubuntu_18-04: podman_ubuntu_18-04-logs.log

Also, here's my locale command on the host machine and inside the container: distrobox_ubuntu_18-04-locale.md

Desktop (please complete the following information):

• Are you using podman, docker or lilipod? podman
• Which version or podman, docker or lilipod? 5.4.1
• Which version of distrobox? 1.8.1.2
• Which host distribution? Fedora 41, Xfce spin
• How did you install distrobox? dnf install

Additional context
I also tried to run Tizen Studio installer inside ubuntu:20.04 and ubuntu:24.04 and there was no such problem.

I'm not sure whether this is an actual bug with distrobox, so posting it as a question.

[dottorblaster]

It's definitely an issue with the image. 😄