In Ubuntu 14.04 from one day to another characters start to be missing in all applications (Ubuntu menus, thunderbird, etc).
How to fix this?
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As already stated characters are missing all over the place. The reason seems to be an outdated Intel Graphics driver in Ubuntu 14.04 - which is not compatible with the 5th generation of Intel CPU/GPU. As noticed and further described in this bug report
"Distribution not supported" when trying to install Intel Graphics Installer in Ubuntu describes how the Intel Graphics Installer for Linux starts. But unfortunately it does not succeed. The reason is that Ubuntu 14.04 is not supported. Ubuntu 14.10 is required.
Edit 04.12.2017
This problem does not exist using Ubuntu 16.04
Therefore I recommend: upgrade to 16.04
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Wow this is an old post - with 16.04 this should be no problem any more. I'll update to use 16.04 now. 16.04 was not available at that time – Thorsten Niehues Dec 04 '17 at 10:50
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I removed the dangerous part – Zanna Dec 11 '17 at 14:46
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But what about if the user can not upgrade to ubuntu 16.04? – Thorsten Niehues Dec 12 '17 at 16:19
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Using repositories from a higher version will just break the packaging system. Anyway, nobody can use 14.10 safely, because it is no longer supported – Zanna Dec 12 '17 at 17:51