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what does it mean when I get a string of boxes with 4 characters, combos of letters and or numbers in place of one digit.

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See bug 906006. I have no idea what this means, nor how to change the coding into something intelligible. I was referred to this page to learn how to submit a better bug report. cut copy & paste are greyed out. I cannot print screen. Thanks, alicia...

See bug 906006. I have no idea what this means, nor how to change the coding into something intelligible. I was referred to this page to learn how to submit a better bug report. cut copy & paste are greyed out. I cannot print screen. Thanks, alicia...

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Hi Alicia, a tall-ish box with two lines of characters (0-9, A-F) indicates that Firefox was not able to display the correct character in the font it was using.

Where on the page are you seeing the problem? In Windows 7, I'm not seeing any font problems. Then again, I don't read Chinese...

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Windows XP doesn't have by default installed support for East Asian an complex script languages.

Check that you have installed East Asian language support.

Check that you have installed support for complex script languages.