Some or all characters not showing correctly
Hi all,
I’m trying to make aware people of the recent Google movements to close gate the internet to their services and I suggest to folks to move to Firefox.
One of my colleagues encounters a problem clearly visible on the image attached (it shows correctly on my mac).
It's not as bad on my mac, where I only have issues every now and then - I received an email this morning on my work email, and all the apostrophes were replaced with Registered symbol (R in a circle).
I noticed that not allowing websites to use their own fonts fixes the issue (unticking "Allow pages to choose their own fonts, instead of your selections above") but I would like to be able to view sites the way the developers intented rather than forcing my browsers default fonts.
Any ideas?
Many thanks
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Does it still happen in Troubleshoot Mode?
zeroknight said
Does it still happen in Troubleshoot Mode?
So I just went on his machine, and for some reason, Wikipedia pages are all showing correctly.
I went back onto my mac, tried Troubleshooting mode to see if it fixes the issue I had with the email, but the issue is still there.
It looks like something is wrong with Arial font on this machine. Try to reinstall Arial, for instance from https://freefontsfamily.com/arial-font-family-free-download/
Modified by TyDraniu
TyDraniu said
It looks like something is wrong with Arial font on this machine. Try to reinstall Arial, for instance from https://freefontsfamily.com/arial-font-family-free-download/
I restored my Fontbook to the default fonts (removed all the User ones and brought back system ones) by File/Restored Standard Fonts... and it seemed to be working fine now!
I had many weird versions of Arial on my mac, but not a clean, system one.
Thank you!
EDIT: False alarm, the issue's still there.
And it's specifically with the apostrophe changing to registered symbol.
I have a suspicion that's from people emailing me from their iPhones (but not confirmed).
Also, I just noticed that "–' shows up as "£" in my emails (I think it's mostly contained to my emails"
The most prevailant issue is with the bullet symbol. I changes it to "i umlaut" but if I were to copy it, it would still be a bullet (see attached image).
You can right-click and select "Inspect" to open the built-in Inspector with this element selected.
- https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/devtools-user/page_inspector/how_to/open_the_inspector/
- https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/devtools-user/page_inspector/how_to/examine_and_edit_html/
You can check in the Rules tab in the right panel in the Inspector what font-family is used for selected text. You can check in the Fonts tab in the right panel in the Inspector what font is actually used because Firefox might be using a different font than specified by the website. If the Fonts tab is hidden, click the down arrow at the right end.