Firefox tabs display weird characters
Recently getting weird characters on my tabs.
p.s how do I add pictures on here to show my problem?
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Firefox is displaying unreadable characters when visiting some websites like digg. The sites work fine in all other browsers. I've tried all encoding options in firefox.
This issue can be caused by an old bitmap version of the Helvetica or Geneva font or (bitmap) fonts that Firefox can't display in that size.
Firefox can't display some old bitmap fonts in a larger size and displays gibberish instead.
You can test that by zooming out (View > Zoom > Zoom Out, Ctrl -) to make the text smaller.
Uninstall (remove) all variants of that not working font to make Firefox use another font or see if you can find a True type version that doesn't show the problem.
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Cursor displays weird characters
Turned on my 2008 Mac Pro the other day to have these weird characters following my cursor around:
Mac Pro 3,1 Quad-Core 2.8GHz; 10 GB RAM; ATI Radeon HD 2600.
I have 3 1TB internal drives, 1=Mountain Lion 10.8.2, 2=Snow Leopard 10.6.8, 3=Windows7
The problem first occurred under Snow Leopard. I rebooted under Mountain Lion and had the same thing.
No cursor problem when booting up under Windows7.
I reinstalled the driver for my Microsoft Intellimouse Explorer 2.0 but that changed nothing.
The Mountain Lion drive was originally a clone of the Snow Leopard drive (used as backup) before upgrading to ML... so thinking it may have been something duplicated from my SL drive (main drive) I wiped the Mountain Lion drive, installed ML (clean - and none of my apps or files) and the cursor problem was gone. Re-booted in SL and problem was there... re-booted in clean ML and problem back.
Also still have problem if booting up SL in Safe Mode.
Any ideas? I hate the thought of wiping drives, installing clean, and loading apps and files manually...
Thanks for any help.
-DaveSadly no.
I haven't taken my Mac in to the Apple Store yet either. Since November the weird text has gone from the one line, to two lines, back to one... and currently at two.
My hope is graphics card (I've also seen comments elsewhere suggesting logic board - yuk). But only a Genius will know for certain.
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Firefox is displaying certain characters/sentences incorrectly
Firefox has for a while now, displayed certain words in gibberish.
The majority of text on a site is fine, however i come across certain websites where the headers/text in boxes (dynamic text? i don't have a clue) displays in an unreadable language, but it appears that the spell checker plug-in I have installed seems to recognise words spelt incorrectly in this gibberish.
I have looked at the settings, and the default text is set to times new roman, which every computer seems to have.
Please see the link to see my problem.
Any advice greatly appreciated.
MattYour screenshot didn't attach properly, only the thumbnail shows.<br />
Use a compressed image type like PNG or JPG to save the screenshot and make sure that you do not exceed the maximum file size (1 MB).
Make sure that you choose an unique name for the image to avoid problems (an image with the same name may already exist). There should be a delete X on the image if the image is uploaded correctly.
Such issues can be caused by an old bitmap version of the Helvetica or Geneva font or (bitmap) fonts that Firefox can't display in that size.<br />
Firefox can't display some old bitmap fonts in a larger size and displays gibberish instead.<br />
A possible test is to zoom out (View > Zoom > Zoom Out, Ctrl -) to make the text smaller.
You need to uninstall (remove) all variants of that not working font to make Firefox use another font. -
Firefox has these weird characters on sites like justin.tv, etc.
How can I fix this?
Some pictures:
http://gyazo.com/d0aef73f052e296f2936a2b03e509392.png
http://gyazo.com/b314ef38a094bd15bf8d0e0049924616.png
http://gyazo.com/9e953198ecb9fc6f4e21596fe766d647.pngThis issue can be caused by an old bitmap version of the Helvetica or Geneva font or (bitmap) fonts that Firefox can't display in that size.<br />
Firefox can't display some old bitmap fonts in a larger size and displays gibberish instead.<br />
You can test that by zooming out (View > Zoom > Zoom Out, Ctrl -) to make the text smaller.
Uninstall (remove) all variants of that not working font to make Firefox use another font or see if you can find a True type version that doesn't show the problem. -
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Hi guys,
I got a javascript to alert user like below:
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alert('<h:outputText value="#{reg_msg['invalid_password']}"/>');
// -->
</script>
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where the current Locale is CN. The alert message display like
sljbfjsbfewg587456435%%^^&^&5143cfcnfejb
please help, Thanks !
regards,
kmthienHi kmthien,
You can try use local-based resource properties and set the application's locale-config config element and correct your jsf code like
<td><h:outputText value="#{msgs.yourmsgkey}"/></td>BTW,I am a chinese too, nice to meet you here. My QQ is 9818376 and MSN is [email protected]
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I am having display problems with my itunes software. Way back, I was reorganizing my fonts collection, and I may have accidently deleted a default font. Now whenever I open iTunes, everything is displayed in some type of Japanese font, and it doesnt happen just for iTunes, there are a few programs where the fonts are displayed differfently. I tried checking the Help, but no use.
Anyone know how to fix this, I will gladly appreciate. I really want this problem solved.
I provided a screenshot to better seee my problem.
http://i1.tinypic.com/1zzlzip.jpg
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iBook G4 Mac OS X (10.4.4) http://i1.tinypic.com/1zzlzip.jpgHave a look at Kurt Lang's article, Font management in Mac OS X Tiger and Panther.
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–í–µ—Ç–µ—Ä –ø—Ä–æ–¥–∏—Ä–∞–µ—Ç –¥–æ –∫–æ—Å—Ç–µ–π."
I thought this had to do with it being an .srt file, but just now I encountered the same problem with an Excel file.
Any ideas why this might be or suggestions as to how to solve it?
Thanks in advance,
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First of all, I'm using RoboHelp 6.
I've seen many posts about this subject, but none with the same version.
I've generated a WebHelp from a word document, that contains accentuated characters (french).
When viewing that help from my local machine, it's ok.
When viewing that help from a web server, it displays weird characters.
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I've seen (if I understood well) that we could change the output charset when generating a web help, but only from the RoboHelp 7 version.
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I'm sure this has been talked about before but I can't find
any related posts... Basically I have a flash app that will take a
text variable through the querystring and disaply, the problem is
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Good news. There is a simple way to fix the FireFox special
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myFlash.js
function writeflash() {
document.write ('<embed..... usual flash tagset
and then in your HTML document where the embed tag previously
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<script>myFlash();</script>
See how to do it here, the first example is easy
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When I go to workflow builder, there are weird characters displaying on the screen.
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with best regards,
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[Solved/Workaround found] XFCE/Firefox/Thunderbird: Weird characters
Hi,
since a few days, there have been weird characters appearing in texts, especially in Firefox, but also in Thunderbird or in the XFCE desktop environment. There you can find a screenshot to see what I mean: http://i.snag.gy/y2Xom.jpg
I found this topic: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=151095
and installed harfbuzz-git, with no change, and also cairo-git, from AUR, but this does not help either.
Is this kind of a bug in XFCE, or in some of the new Gnome 3.6 libraries?
Thanks!
jellysheep
[EDIT] This is with nvidia drivers, enabling or disabling compositing does not change anything.
Last edited by jellysheep (2012-11-13 17:16:09)https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=152837
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dom.ipc.plugins.enabled.npctrl.dll (Silverlight)
dom.ipc.plugins.enabled.npqtplugin.dll (QuickTime)
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-- trying to paste in here examples of weird characters, where real English language titles should be.Try to delete those bookmarks and create a new bookmark with that URL.
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*http://kb.mozillazine.org/Bookmarks_history_and_toolbar_buttons_not_working_-_Firefox
*https://support.mozilla.com/kb/Bookmarks+not+saved#w_places-database-file
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