Strange characters starting to pop up everywhere, why?

so ive been using arch for quite a while now but recently ive noticed something very strange, that never occured before
why are theese strange characters showing up all over the place?
(in the password box it used to have ******* , now it has YYYYYYY, wtf?)
Last edited by tjwoosta (2009-04-04 02:00:19)

molom wrote:That's obviously a font problem, change your font and see if the same thing happens.
BTW does it only happen on Firefox?
hmm
its just strange because ive been using the same font ever since installing but ive never seen theese characters
and afaik yes its only with firefox
edit: also i just noticed but its all like that in the firefox menus too, but not in any other programs menus
Last edited by tjwoosta (2009-04-04 02:14:56)

Similar Messages

HT1199 The applet is failed to start keeps popping up. Why is this happening

I am attempting to submit a power point presentation and need to have a program called Kaltura record images from my screen. Every time I try I get the statement applet is failed. Can someone help me with this issue. I am using a Mac 10.9. This is my last class before I graduate and I have to submit this presentation before 11/7/14

Not needed from the App Store. Go straight to the developer.
http://www.devontechnologies.com/products/freeware.html
Also FindAnyFile, which if you Option click Find will search as root.
http://apps.tempel.org/FindAnyFile/index.php
For EasyFind, enter the name of the developer or anything else associated with it.

I just started using my iphone 5s. I have a problem with new incoming emails from my POP account. Why are they marked as read automatically even though I have not even opened them yet.

I just started using my iphone 5s. I have a problem with new incoming emails from my POP account. Why are they marked as read automatically even though I have not even opened them yet.
At first I thought it might be because I was using simultaneously my old iPhone 4S so it somehow realized the emails where being pushed to another device and the it marked as read, this has nothing to do since I have deleted the email account from the iPhone 4S

Contact the email provider for assistance with their service.

Pages document turned to gibberish-strange characters in rectangles. Can't read underlying text (still there)

I use a Pages document (password protected) as a frequent reference. It is 22 pages of text. Suddenly most text was replaced with strange characters, each encased in a little rectangle, so document was unreadable. Selecting a section of text, I could right-click and see that underlying text was still there, just not readable onscreen. Style was "Normal*." I don't know what the " * " means. I selected all and changed style to "Heading 9" on the list. All text reappeared, so my data is ok - for now (though not formatted as I want it). I can't trust Pages, however, and don't know what caused the problem or how to avoid it.
Note that the style now shows "Heading 9*". I don't know why the " * ". I tried selecting all and making "Normal" the global style, but the strange characters wouldn't budge. Switching back to Normal brings back gibberish.
Some text is Verdana; I just noticed that changing font also got rid of gibberish. Changing back to Verdana brought back gibberish.
Note that not every line of text was changed to gibberish; some were just fine.
Other Pages documents are fine - right now. I notice that there are asterisks in Style in other text documents.
I'm an experienced computer user, new to Pages in the fall when it came with my MacBook Air. In this document, format isn't all that important, but I can imagine where this would be a huge disaster for other types of documents.
Any help in figuring out what's going on most appreciated.

Tom -
"That sounds like Apple's Last Resort font, which gets used when for some reason the app forgets about the font being used. Use Fontbook to make sure you don't have duplicate Verdanas on your machine. Also try cleaning your font caches with Onyx or by doing a safe boot"
Wow! Who would have guessed! Thank you for the advice; Fontbook revealed a number of duplicate fonts - ot Verdana, interestingly enough - which I have now resolved. I then switched all text to Trebuchet MS, and everything reverted to normal. I can live with Trebuchet.
This problem appeared on the same day (before or after I wasn't sure) I installed MS Office. Could this have caused the problem?
Thanks for your prompt reply, explanation and solutions.

Strange characters instead of PDF-file

when I forward to a servlet called Test.java, my browser return a PDF file.
but when I write the method of the servlet in a bean, called WinkelWagen.java, and I write the rest of the code of the servlet in a jsp file (pdf.jsp, this jsp calls the method in the bean) I only get strange characters returned by my browser and Acrobat Reader doesn't run.
the code of the servlet Test.java:
package be.steppe.cursusdienst.pdf;
import javax.servlet.*;
import javax.servlet.http.*;
import java.util.*;
import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
import java.io.PrintWriter;
import be.steppe.cursusdienst.instellingen.Variabelen;
import be.steppe.cursusdienst.beans.WinkelWagen;
import be.steppe.cursusdienst.Product;
import com.lowagie.text.*;
import com.lowagie.text.pdf.*;
public class Test extends HttpServlet
     public Test()
          super();
     public void doGet(HttpServletRequest req, HttpServletResponse resp)
          throws javax.servlet.ServletException, java.io.IOException
          DocumentException ex = null;
          ByteArrayOutputStream baosPDF = null;
          //HttpSession session = req.getSession(true);
          //WinkelWagen ww = (WinkelWagen) req.getAttribute("winkelWagen");
          //Vector vector = new Vector();
          //vector = ww.genereerFormLijst();
          try
               baosPDF = fix();
               StringBuffer sbFilename = new StringBuffer();
               sbFilename.append("filename_");
               sbFilename.append(System.currentTimeMillis());
               sbFilename.append(".pdf");
               resp.setHeader("Cache-Control", "max-age=30");
               resp.setContentType("application/pdf");
               StringBuffer sbContentDispValue = new StringBuffer();
               sbContentDispValue.append("inline");
               sbContentDispValue.append("; filename=");
               sbContentDispValue.append(sbFilename);
               resp.setHeader("Content-disposition",sbContentDispValue.toString());
               resp.setContentLength(baosPDF.size());
               ServletOutputStream sos;
               sos = resp.getOutputStream();
               baosPDF.writeTo(sos);
               sos.flush();
          catch (DocumentException dex)
               resp.setContentType("text/html");
               PrintWriter writer = resp.getWriter();
               writer.println(
                         this.getClass().getName()
                         + " caught an exception: "
                         + dex.getClass().getName()
                         + "<br>");
               writer.println("<pre>");
               dex.printStackTrace(writer);
               writer.println("</pre>");
          finally
               if (baosPDF != null)
                    baosPDF.reset();
     protected ByteArrayOutputStream fix() throws DocumentException {
          Document doc = new Document();
          ByteArrayOutputStream baosPDF = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
          PdfWriter docWriter = null;
          try
               docWriter = PdfWriter.getInstance(doc, baosPDF);
               doc.addAuthor(this.getClass().getName());
               doc.addCreationDate();
               doc.addProducer();
               doc.addCreator(Variabelen.getPdfAuteur());
               doc.addTitle("BESTELLING");
               doc.setPageSize(PageSize.LETTER);
               HeaderFooter footer = new HeaderFooter(
                                   new Phrase("BESTELLING     ID:           GEPLAATST DOOR:"),
                                   false);
               doc.setFooter(footer);
               doc.open();
/*                for(int i = 0 ; i < vector.size() ; i++) {
*                doc.add(new Paragraph( ((Product) vector.elementAt(i)).getProductId() ));
               doc.add(new Paragraph(
                              "This document was created on "
                              + new java.util.Date()));
          catch (DocumentException dex)
               baosPDF.reset();
               throw dex;
          finally
               if (doc != null)
                    doc.close();
               if (docWriter != null)
                    docWriter.close();
          if (baosPDF.size() < 1)
               throw new DocumentException(
                    "document has "
                    + baosPDF.size()
                    + " bytes");
          return baosPDF;
}The code of the bean:
package be.steppe.cursusdienst.beans;
import java.util.Vector;
import be.steppe.cursusdienst.Product;
import be.steppe.cursusdienst.FormProduct;
import java.io.*;
import be.steppe.cursusdienst.instellingen.Variabelen;
import com.lowagie.text.*;
import com.lowagie.text.pdf.*;
public class WinkelWagen implements Serializable {
private Vector producten;
public WinkelWagen() {
    producten = new Vector();
public void voegProductToe(Product p) {
    producten.addElement(p);
public Vector haalProducten() {
    return producten;
public void verwijderProduct(int pId) {
    for(int i = 0 ; i < producten.size() ; i++) {
      if(pId == ((Product) (producten.elementAt(i))).getProductId()) {
        producten.removeElementAt(i);
        break;
public void maakWinkelWagenLeeg() {
    producten.removeAllElements();
public Vector genereerFormLijst() {
    int aantal = 0;
    Vector lijst = new Vector();
    boolean alInLijst;
    for(int i = 0 ; i < producten.size() ; i++) {
      aantal = 0;
      int prodId;
      alInLijst = false;
      Product p = (Product) producten.elementAt(i);
      prodId = p.getProductId();
      for(int l = 0 ; l < lijst.size() ; l++) {
        if(prodId == ((FormProduct) (lijst.elementAt(l))).getProductId()) {
          alInLijst = true;
      if(!alInLijst) {
        for(int q = 0 ; q < producten.size() ; q++) {
          if(prodId == ((Product) (producten.elementAt(q))).getProductId()) {
            aantal++;
        int pId = ((Product) (producten.elementAt(i))).getProductId();
        String tNaam = ((Product) (producten.elementAt(i))).getTypeNaam();
        String tit = ((Product) (producten.elementAt(i))).getTitel();
        String omschr = ((Product) (producten.elementAt(i))).getOmschrijving();
        double pr = ((Product) (producten.elementAt(i))).getPrijs();
        int hoev = ((Product) (producten.elementAt(i))).getStock();
        FormProduct formProduct = new FormProduct(pId,tNaam,tit,omschr,pr,hoev,aantal);
        lijst.addElement(formProduct);
      return lijst;
    public double berekenTotaal() {
      double totaal = 0;
      for(int i = 0 ; i < producten.size() ; i++) {
        Product p = (Product) producten.elementAt(i);
        totaal = totaal + p.getPrijs();
      return totaal;
    public ByteArrayOutputStream fix() throws DocumentException {
         Vector vector = genereerFormLijst();
         Document doc = new Document();
          ByteArrayOutputStream baosPDF = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
          PdfWriter docWriter = null;
          try
               docWriter = PdfWriter.getInstance(doc, baosPDF);
               doc.addAuthor("author");
               doc.addCreationDate();
               doc.addProducer();
               doc.addCreator(Variabelen.getPdfAuteur());
               doc.addTitle("BESTELLING");
               doc.setPageSize(PageSize.LETTER);
               HeaderFooter footer = new HeaderFooter(
                                   new Phrase("BESTELLING     ID:           GEPLAATST DOOR:"),
                                   false);
               doc.setFooter(footer);
               doc.open();
               for(int i = 0 ; i < vector.size() ; i++) {
               doc.add(new Paragraph( ((FormProduct) vector.elementAt(i)).getProductId() ));
               doc.add(new Paragraph(
                              "This document was created on "
                              + new java.util.Date()));
          catch (DocumentException dex)
               baosPDF.reset();
               throw dex;
          finally
               if (doc != null)
                    doc.close();
               if (docWriter != null)
                    docWriter.close();
          if (baosPDF.size() < 1)
               throw new DocumentException(
                    "document has "
                    + baosPDF.size()
                    + " bytes");
          return baosPDF;
}the code of the JSP-file
<html>
<head>
</head>
<%@ page import="java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream" %>
<%@ page import="java.io.PrintWriter"%>
<%@ page import="be.steppe.cursusdienst.instellingen.Variabelen"%>
<%@ page import="be.steppe.cursusdienst.beans.WinkelWagen"%>
<%@ page import="be.steppe.cursusdienst.Product"%>
<%@ page import="java.util.*" %>
<%@ page import="com.lowagie.text.*" %>
<%@ page import="com.lowagie.text.pdf.*" %>
<jsp:useBean class="WinkelWagen" id="winkelWagen" scope="session" />
<body>
<%
ByteArrayOutputStream baosPDF = null;
try
               baosPDF = winkelWagen.fix();
               StringBuffer sbFilename = new StringBuffer();
               sbFilename.append("filename_");
               sbFilename.append(System.currentTimeMillis());
               sbFilename.append(".pdf");
               response.setHeader("Cache-Control", "max-age=30");
               response.setContentType("application/pdf");
               StringBuffer sbContentDispValue = new StringBuffer();
               sbContentDispValue.append("inline");
               sbContentDispValue.append("; filename=");
               sbContentDispValue.append(sbFilename);
               response.setHeader("Content-disposition",sbContentDispValue.toString());
               response.setContentLength(baosPDF.size());
               ServletOutputStream sos;
               sos = response.getOutputStream();
               baosPDF.writeTo(sos);
               sos.flush();
          catch (DocumentException dex)
               response.setContentType("text/html");
               PrintWriter writer = response.getWriter();
               writer.println(
                         this.getClass().getName()
                         + " caught an exception: "
                         + dex.getClass().getName()
                         + "<br>");
               writer.println("<pre>");
               dex.printStackTrace(writer);
               writer.println("</pre>");
          finally
               if (baosPDF != null)
                    baosPDF.reset();
%>
</body>
          </html>can anyone please help me out ...
gr
Steppe

ok,
I removed the html tags in the jsp-file and now acrobat reader does start.
but it says the pdf file is damaged and cannot be repaired ...
any ideas?
gr
Steppe

Strange characters showing up in Essbase Server pick list

I have one user, that is logging into her Essbase spreadsheet addin and seeing all kinds of strange characters following each server name in the Server drop down list within the Essbase System Login window. Any ideas what would cause this?
What we have found is the Server names and strange characters are showing up in the registry key: "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Hyperion Solutions\Essbase\Login". Normally you would see something like this in this key:
(Default)    Reg_SZ    (Value not set)
Server        Reg_SZ    ServerName1
Server1      Reg_SZ    ServerName2
Server2      Reg_SZ    ServerName3
etc.
What is showing now, is the original list of servers, with 10 or so new ones that repeat the server names that were already there followed by strange characters. There were 10 extra entries in this particular persons drop down list. We deleted them from the Registry and she was good for a few minutes and then they came back!! Anybody seen this before? We are running 11.1.2.1 of the Oracle Essbase Spreadsheet Add-in. Excel 2010. Windows 7. She is also using the In2HypEssbase ribbon, but so are many others, and she is the only one experiencing this problem.
Thanks,
Mike

Sorry, I forgot to mention that we did delete them from the registry and they did disappear from the drop down list. But a little while later it happened again! They seem to keep coming back and we don't know why. Again, she is the only person in the company that has had this issue. I have had her shutdown everything and reboot her pc with no luck as well, just to make sure there wasn't something quirky going on in the memory of the pc.
Mike

Adobe Reader displaying strange characters

Hello! I am writing my uni task. For that I downloaded a .pdf document from my university, which has text boxes for me to fill in. I do not know how/with which program this file was created. I first tried dealing with it using the Windows 8 Reader app. Several times, when I switched from the document to the Desktop and back, all my text was converted into strange characters. I started saving the document before switching, and this seemed to solve the problem at first. But then at some point I saved and closed it, and when I opened it the next time, only the box I modified last (with an essay) was converted into strange characters. When I copy it somewhere, the text does not appear. I tried opening the thing with Adobe Reader. It does not convert anything into weird symbols, but the ones from the previous time remain. Is there any way I can get the information back?
Here's the whole 'strange character' bit:
ý«†z´y,o/>§™I$2ž|‘M¥8"Žb2;¸[áÔeìb⁄æÉ÷×˛ÝµßScÄ−¹<¹˚ëÞG+VW5²!1°%ZÔ;‘ƒÀ¤|ªł.W‚nb·Ü`ø}=†mû⁄À¦• ¸ßÁºþÜ”ãØˇÂ²ÑrŸ–)·ô†+Ù˘¬ì¶4<Àqc.®ªSG”˛¹„+ö:@€‚Å˝å²M«ÚŸ/E¼¿ﬂüUÌÈü…qªÉ³pÉ2ôù$fiÍævﬂÓrîsƒr6@_ 8Í¾¢DîuAÑ˙Ô¨ÿ,s<“Ñ·Üä™ŸtàZ,Ö½¨#ee˚˛üBwê!MŠU¸Ÿ€¹*øƒN‰×{hø?;Ô·Î'k$;Í÷Qýw~&—ł„Aå”MTì¹⁄¿tË@˘/J ÿóS˝
ý_l'Di
õ#J³ß0O8Á@žöÃfB%Ôî{
Ûõz8Á&Â´ØëU^¤mDèüV½â~žË@ØÀ*Ý−›D‘–l@šTÁ–U-§þR˘
çU ió¦(fH€RBRK%nÁ0þ$½Œ‰¢@˛x§{±'QRÕéKÅµ«uÌ2>åÎ‚úëoNH¢-c|d‰AOÓÎgS×eGzł⁄Dd¢&łEyþ•½w;;"÷+B‰
Á ‹rn+8‰|JeÐ˙Š6Âî÷;x^¯~j⁄TÓa¦O˙qé=:*v¬à^!·þá¡®SL=Ìáh)¬øxthj™ŽÁ–½…¬Ü‚łþ ÇÌÌ„¶"KÉ4$ô‰'š−°íŽùÜÑHÜ>o¶y%˛U(Í÷f–wøÙ±⁄[¢ý [Å‚Œ‘ß?˛−dÄ¹–ï4¾&ôzÚÃSåÁ¡Ëä¡¡DG¡ŁøO7øã|ò‹áï…Q³Ê;˚@w|¤C¡¨ÝôÏŽ´ÎgÙ¿ö—‡óÊ—F¼ñ}¢¡ù¹ê˜Š˜Û›·«íÿ `QùÐ¶×g”˛Ï;–úÍ‹OU'†ah„y’‹èa´ŸÏ°èwP×ƒ—‚
üp˝qŸ±æŸøŒ¼ýìł˝‡u‚dSf0ùÉ\FŽ˛¤mW;ôÍ¤äühUÙv˛˛¯aˆý1Ø`âÇ˝òX>&
éÝßŠÉ‰Ë›>á–·ÈýùÒ…ªŁ =ﬁ‡llv¸èøÜ÷~ûº÷0ﬂÁMndejŽf-&°H.¥æµÁ⁄'¤zJÚª6•ç9¿öÝd-iðcÐöz›
»}g¤ł)4¡PŽXüª¤ÌT«¦Èl©œºG£§3êêH˜-]ûß˝%ëÐh›WÔ˘˜B–Ùî!)CÃäÁ?P–»˝Û¥¬|T‰ÆÈà⁄A*(é2QÓJx™K?ÔöGwìŒÝz HèÓT•²‹ÿf~SzúúDQ]ü“¥‘ﬁtú¸E_afN"³~/ﬂõ˘§˚Þ§²UÉùtN&º¬tÆ#uzMP=<÷û‹˜¸ù−HùS>šˆ]1]¨—˜ÖhÌŁ\°rv˘þ
‚ãÓ»¬‘ŽVÏ°ÕL0H90chÃM®yb¶§J•V"çµÅ/”€Ðk⁄iÑNÚhd@£|ös‚÷Þ‚´k§)äoıÃLöÒ5Éº°›îEÀ‚Ä–ç±]êš§ýE›=q¸÷ÿü žDe¾xüı¡:&˚B¢‰jÈMö6»ł¬6 /å•‚ÚÿÊ Ó±t'ùTã“µëS
~J[DÜiîœ[þpéjDævø@ÊäsßŽÈØïÅàUÛÏwå&¼t−©•ır
—õ¹íOòê¤¥²`÷LZKrd€J6ÄÎÛÅ−|W0Nš¸@…r«qt’liÑÃ§ÌY’æÙ!“Sâ<†Æh‡z|4Aš*£ﬂ˜ôñsÁÊ˜l±W²
ï¦ncïŒ‹Ó,»ÒùYµÛ™'T©Ì727˝^2?rNË˚Ç¡¿¢+ßu–H2e¸©CB#˚ÁºƒâÇÅÖK−"2ÍiŸRO0 ›^"˛"−âÉ×íôòCBí[îˆ¨aõãÑ,¶^³Nh–S¨íï?Øł9r\¦7
kg‚Á¤0?t Éà(Ô$>x·k(™Š°µ˘Xòþ÷£−»á€IâyòLl3DõËò0TËÌåk–ﬁ¶åA3Õ¨gˇÿüf‘±yùÈ{¦›—šÃ§®ãI;ûwhÈ˜4ZUdv-y‚t|jrÆÛ +/ÞŁ(kł¬<¡e:˙O[Ê'–6ö¨M¦«ïæÈž§$4Nœ9Ú¢½òìóvàﬂ˜÷§Ñﬂgd¦³N³í[´Ì%Q5r˜Ýl
ÛpXøïåwü—Ö²¯ê⁄ûiıÎÖ„&´ø¥º¾¬(m‘iAŽéü_œé°&LøÊhÚü³œcÞ÷hR™ÌIª3U7áõüXT¡`s¥˚“ˇÂŽ
Î@ÔrÞ+dµ˝LA>]t;pˆZ×˘—Øi'çÞŠ¿
kª"~ýl5ﬁ,ÿ6uP&‹ã+‚¨(Ì¯K_è“å$ÍÁº#F¤Ö¦ø˝ÿµuX6_−
Ëp¼Me‹¿ùöÖ°bS<¯¥P©ú½éÀ
î e½íšND¿“N®”Z(ß(j%;=Há–®† A.ﬂ*
9Ï−²È§™,ÐS2AÒÀ!ÇÜMRœê‰G£þÜàOB˙_⁄˚7‡¶»²j÷ÅÚe½*x¢˝¸‚©nSŸ!ÃùGtÕP7&ł½R7(ýñ‹ÿAæ¦?|uÐWƒ˜¯¬BHj`êf Ì]3Ýßäîe˛
qË}óÉSŁ¢S“†#å*‹3I@†®ï#eVç>0×sI›åRþPuÙ'sèf§È'™BVÍµƒ˘vÅ¢ùÁÍu/¬A¬3`¶¥ô*®ŽùÕ”£‡a7ˇlˇoÜ−
zÂÏBÁËmC˘ß×z{#lﬂ⁄õmł?íTM¥u¸š\L†áFı!-½šÀ‚ž¦AÅŽdZqê‰)Iü"˘š™ÑØ¸¸<Šıv¢U',)åX#−ßÅ\YƒÿŒ¶¥}ÏÄÚ£ØÍ ökC›fìÇ‡¶u÷¹öØêX9XWtùã,š"ÓxòÇô„¼N!ó:[ªˆ³ï•Łõ±^çx#Î´sLe¤bYÂ‡#Y×¸©åFÌîlËCdàåºT-)K¸È>H9”Ñå|nå $ﬁ°ûÄ$å4k’#˚r›Äîæ²è§ﬁ:ZJEëä´ ý‘byŠ+w
þz“Ç
Éúñõ˘iMS¦C˘¸«.¶ÄµÚž431üPÐ¥{yŽó¯*O
+ºiÝ7'òM€Fzä^GçÖºJ²™#E⁄Øwý˘P0-\»ˆêvhÇªœ>Ð˘m˝íÜëŸG½#«?ÊÕeqIñ¬c`e
[ŁHD˘W‘»˝žŸûøJÍŽ+UVÿGJ²îs~ƒ´õc”{úoL‹
3„XŁ?`•ïâ—ıaDJ?¥cå2)Ï8^žVA"?MÀ0z±¼ä[°CwP%µ™8;kŠ/IÍ:2/_kNË˚Žþ"Ö²äÕºÒg£WjÆd$ÄMÑõe•;?ò[hÏ+PD˚ à×Ã“ô¦¨àÚÄN†YPcÐ«)#×ÈÔÙL˜7]ë%PÞÏ:p2ªıÚô;ﬂ·¤˘íBŒP¬q_öx¤‡d™ﬂÐ¹zCŽ7ÿbò×iqó ´!ø¡Šzh¯1Úr„£ı˛A1>=/õ#wã®ˆ
üqß]‚˘a¤óßäUÌå*[:/@†yóBÀ˙ŸÒtx1®PŒ!Ïóc?›‰‚ÉÀkt[§m§a7z¾ˇö¤¥ë/è€1˛,JlQ…¼S;h(§f~@RÐ,ûÈ(−ön.Hq« ÍØ−¶ÞÁNØÔ_T”êDœwü˚Û.²\>—NŽr(Q¡OÌ¿¬?-kÓDO!ps˚¹Š?¥«T¦¾ø:õ+¬!˚G−×&¡pãÅ°-|Ê??ŁÂèÇžÉÄ¢m¥\a˛ME5c Q_&Ÿ.#/ÊKq:’HZb%\Òµ3ÀÌv˜stÆé@Í¤Cžzjú4Þ¢f ðH'g6¯¨ßËžÿ®tŸ}4:h\$‚lå3E_.¨%Ùx3FxGJF†ı˘~GþłûZ@P¦é9ÓÉi€çÊ ›µÖÔZúO~Ì×Ð–;vÔáwQÖ1Ãì⁄†ÿ>i˚“ò0þ(ÖıƒN)xæA§©¾

The document: https://files.acrobat.com/a/preview/71fb561e-78a2-44ae-8bd6-9df6520e9d1b
The box I was talking about is the very last one.
The Adobe ReaderI started using recently is version XI; the one I used when I started editing the document was Windows 8 Reader app by Microsoft, version 6.2.8516.0.

Strange characters when copy/paste from Word

Hi,
I have in Word u2018hellou2019 and when I paste it in the Notes of IR and save it, it turns into 018hello 019 so the apostrophes transform into these strange characters.
I checked with Notepad, Excel and Wordpad and this issue does not occur, only for Word.
Do you know why this happens ?
It should be a Word/IE setting as this issue does not occur on a Terminal Server. Only on usersu2019
workstations.
Thank you
Edited by: Mihai Olaru on Nov 1, 2008 2:43 AM

Hi Shiva,
Some styles for font of rich text aren't be kept when I copy the content from Word 2013 and paste into a wiki page from SharePoint 2010/2013(even SharePoint 2007 like this
post) site as same as yours, it looks like a limitation.
As a workaround, we can publish the Word content as a Blog article in SharePoint site, then copy the content from the blog page to the needed SharePoint page, it will keep the rich text content format, you can have a try.
http://plexhosted.com/billing/knowledgebase/274/How-to-publish-a-SharePoint-blog-article-via-Microsoft-Word-2013-SharePoint-2013.html
Thanks
Daniel Yang
TechNet Community Support
Please remember to mark the replies as answers if they help, and unmark the answers if they provide no help. If you have feedback for TechNet Support, contact
[email protected]

Strange characters and symobls print in the middle of a print job. Help.

In the middle of a print job, whether one page or several, it starts printing strange characters and symbols until the end of the job. It will do this in the middle of the page, or after printing one line of English and the rest of the page in gibberish.
It usually does this while printing off bank statements from the internet or a pdf file pulled from the internet. I don't think it has ever printed any of my documents.
However, it has done this while printing a bill received as an attachment to an email from a friend.
The next print job will usually be back to "normal". But one day, it did this many times during the day. Frustrating!
Appreciate any help.

I had this happen to me with a PDF file once. I called Support at HP,
and they told me it was because I had labeled the PDF as "text" when
it actually has (technically) "pictures" in it -- the printer didn't know how
to print those "pictures" (symbols?) as "text," so it came out as gibberish.
Perhaps there's a teckie here who can tell you more eloquently. [And
what to do about it!]
HTH!

Strange Characters in Mail and Safari

Hello,
Just got my mini home and have noticed strange characters appearing in both Mail and Safari.
It seems to be a font problem, but changing the fonts in mail and safarui prefs doesn't seem to fix it.
Specifically: The apple start page rss stories display a weird font, so do the mail headers in mac mail.
Yes, I did a search of the forum and the only things I seem to be coming up with are font issues related to outlook receiving mail on a pc.
Any suggestions?
Stefan

Without seeing what you mean by "strange characters" it is hard to tell, but the most common cause of gibberish text is the font Helvetica Fractions or Times Phonetic. Dump them if you have them. Also clean your font caches with FontFinagler (use google to find it).
Send a screen shot if you like (tom at bluesky dot org).

Arabic text displaying as strange characters

When I copy Arabic text from MSQL 2005 to excel 2013, it is showing as strange characters.
But there is no issue when I copying Arabic text to excel 2010
How to fix this problem.

Hi Dungun,
Thanks for posting in MSDN forum.
This forum is for developers discussing developing issues involve Excel application. Since the issue is relative to the end-user, I suggeste that you get more effecitve response from
Excel IT Pro Discussions forum.
The reason why we recommend posting appropriately is you will get the most qualified pool of respondents, and other partners who read the forums regularly can either share their knowledge or learn from your interaction with us.
Thanks for your understanding.
Regards & Fei
We are trying to better understand customer views on social support experience, so your participation in this interview project would be greatly appreciated if you have time. Thanks for helping make community forums a great place.
Click
HERE to participate the survey.

PDF file contains strange characters and letters.

PDF file shows strange characters and letters. Why does this happen? How do I correct this so I can print print the file?

This is probably due to fonts not be embedded in the pdf or too many different font subsets. If it is the former issue, you need to contact the creator of the pdf and have them embed the fonts. You cannot do it, since if you had the fonts on your system, it would ok. If it is related to font subsets you could try to unembed all fonts in the pdf using the PDF Optimizer, then re-embed the fonts using the Preflight tool.

Mail displaying strange characters

Hello
I was previously using Thunderbird, but when I saw how nice Mail is, I switched over. Now I am starting to rethink, because it's displaying some very strange characters without reason. What could be the cause of this? Here is a screenshot (I blurred out people's names): <img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v297/davidjohn/miscellaneous/Picture2.pn g" border="0"</a>
MacBook Mac OS X (10.4.8)

You're very welcome.
That's a very common problem
Glad you're all sorted now.

Strange problem with Dreamweaver Pop-Up menus

Hello:
I have encountered a very strange problem with DreamWeaver
pop-up menus, and I was wondering if I could get some help from
this forum, as I can't seem to find an answer anywhere else.
The problem involves use of DreamWeaver's pop-up menu
behavior — all works as expected, and my local preview of the
Web page/site works fine, but when I upload the site to a server, I
see extra question mark and "box" characters added to my drop-down
menus. This problem is inconsistent between browsers: Sometimes I
see it only on IE, sometimes I also see it on Firefox.
For example, check out the following URLs:
http://libertycreativesolutions.net/clients/cci/
... this implementation of drop-down menus ("Services"
button, etc.) displays an extra "box" character for each of the
drop-down menu items, but this only occurs in IE -- Firefox is
fine.
http://libertycreativesolutions.net/clients/microtek/HTML/MicroTek_home.html
... this implementation of drop-down menus shows an extra
question mark above the triggering link onMouseOver for Firefox,
and in IE, it shows this "box" character for both the triggering
buttons and for each menu item.
For both of these sites, the pop-up menus work without a
problem *when I'm looking at a local version on my workstation*.
What in the Wide Wide World of Sports is going on here????
Any help for this problem is appreciated.
Note that I stripped out the JavaScript code for menu
information from the <head></head> area of each of
these pages and placed it in a linked JavaScript document.
HELP!

First, you need to read this, written by the person who
adapted that menu
code for Macromedia -
http://www.losingfight.com/blog/2006/08/11/the-sordid-tale-of-mm_menufw_menujs/
Then you need to know that there are MUCH better ways to do
such things -
Check the uberlink and MacFly tutorials at PVII -
http://www.projectseven.com/
and the Navbar tutorial/articles at Thierry's place
http://tjkdesign.com/articles/dropdown/
Or this one (more recent article):
http://tjkdesign.com/articles/Pure_CSS_Dropdown_Menus.asp
Or to get it done fast, go here -
http://www.projectseven.com/tutorials/navigation/auto_hide/index.htm
Murray --- ICQ 71997575
Adobe Community Expert
(If you *MUST* email me, don't LAUGH when you do so!)
==================
http://www.dreamweavermx-templates.com
- Template Triage!
http://www.projectseven.com/go
- DW FAQs, Tutorials & Resources
http://www.dwfaq.com - DW FAQs,
Tutorials & Resources
http://www.macromedia.com/support/search/
- Macromedia (MM) Technotes
==================
"Pomond69" <[email protected]> wrote in
message
news:[email protected]...
> Hello:
> I have encountered a very strange problem with
DreamWeaver pop-up menus,
> and I
> was wondering if I could get some help from this forum,
as I can't seem
> to
> find an answer anywhere else.
>
> The problem involves use of DreamWeaver's pop-up menu
behavior ? all works
> as
> expected, and my local preview of the Web page/site
works fine, but when I
> upload the site to a server, I see extra question mark
and "box"
> characters
> added to my drop-down menus. This problem is
inconsistent between
> browsers:
> Sometimes I see it only on IE, sometimes I also see it
on Firefox.
>
> For example, check out the following URLs:
>
>
http://libertycreativesolutions.net/clients/cci/
> ... this implementation of drop-down menus ("Services"
button, etc.)
> displays
> an extra "box" character for each of the drop-down menu
items, but this
> only
> occurs in IE -- Firefox is fine.
>
>
http://libertycreativesolutions.net/clients/microtek/HTML/MicroTek_home.html
> ... this implementation of drop-down menus shows an
extra question mark
> above
> the triggering link onMouseOver for Firefox, and in IE,
it shows this
> "box"
> character for both the triggering buttons and for each
menu item.
>
> For both of these sites, the pop-up menus work without a
problem *when I'm
> looking at a local version on my workstation*.
>
> What in the Wide Wide World of Sports is going on
here???? Any help for
> this
> problem is appreciated.
>
> Note that I stripped out the JavaScript code for menu
information from the
> <head></head> area of each of these pages
and placed it in a linked
> JavaScript
> document.
>
> HELP!
>

PROBLEM: HP p2015 printing strange Characters

In our office we have an HP 2015 that has started printing abnormal characters on the end pages of say, a 6 page document. The first three pages will be ok, and then the remaining three pages will have symbols and strange characters in replace of the normal alphabet characters.
I've noticed it doing this from ADOBE PDF documents that are larger than 3-4 pages. Does anyone have any ideas or solutions? I have re-installed the latest drivers, and the printer appears to have the latest updates.

read here
" If you find it helpful, pls click on the blue KUDOS button on the left -side of the screen as an indication "

Strange characters starting to pop up everywhere, why?

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for