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Why is my character encoding a problem after upgrade to v4?

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My apostrophes and other random symbols aren't being encoded properly with the Firefox 4 upgrade and displaying a ’ symbol. Please see screenshot: http://awesomescreenshot.com/0a4aj9qcd

However, in Safari, I have no issues.

My character encoding is set to Western (ISO-8859-1)

My apostrophes and other random symbols aren't being encoded properly with the Firefox 4 upgrade and displaying a ’ symbol. Please see screenshot: http://awesomescreenshot.com/0a4aj9qcd However, in Safari, I have no issues. My character encoding is set to Western (ISO-8859-1)

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Its happend with hebrew too.

I notice(thanks to firebug) that's the problem happend usualy with bolded texts(strong, em etc..).

Modified by AlmogBaku

@AlmogBaku We have seen this problem in the past, and found that it caused by a broken Arial fonts. Restoring the fonts to the default fonts should solve this issue.

More information here (Hebrew): http://mozilla.org.il/board/viewtopic.php?t=9855

Modified by Tomer Cohen