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Tyral
 Post subject: Firefox font issues
PostPosted: Sat Jan 17, 2009 7:39 PM 
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I've been having problems in Firefox 3.0.5 with fonts on a number of pages. I can't seem to find anything else on this problem, so I figured I'd post it here. Below is a screenshot of what I see when the issue comes up. It's from a thread in the Politics section on these boards, so you might recognize it.

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Droma
 Post subject: Re: Firefox font issues
PostPosted: Sun Jan 18, 2009 2:33 AM 
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that post uses weird characters, try going to view -> character coding and select Unicode (utf-8). if it doesn't work it might be cause you don't have the right windows language pack that has those characters or something.
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Tyral
 Post subject: Re: Firefox font issues
PostPosted: Sun Jan 18, 2009 1:16 PM 
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Yeah, I've already got it set to UTF-8. I see this more on games like AE where people use odds characters/fonts, and it's been showing up in my google searches fairly often. I just checked on IE, and it shows up funky on there as well.

Recommendations? Is there someplace I can update/download a language pack?

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Tyral the Kithless
 Post subject: Re: Firefox font issues
PostPosted: Wed Feb 25, 2009 12:31 AM 
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Okay, bumping this, because it's apparently not a Firefox issue. It's an issue with my computer, because it happens in a number of programs including both Firefox and IE.

I have Windows XP Media Center edition. Not sure what else I'd need to know, but this crap is driving me nuts and I've no idea how to fix it.

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Givin Wetwillies
 Post subject: Re: Firefox font issues
PostPosted: Wed Feb 25, 2009 3:14 AM 
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Probably malware or a shit up registery. Antivirus? Spybot?

Run CCleaner or reformat.
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Xkhanx
 Post subject: Re: Firefox font issues
PostPosted: Wed Feb 25, 2009 6:39 AM 
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Don't re-format, just put your CD in and run a windows repair.

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Tyral the Kithless
 Post subject: Re: Firefox font issues
PostPosted: Wed Feb 25, 2009 7:42 AM 
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Givin Wetwillies wrote:
Probably malware or a shit up registery. Antivirus? Spybot?

Run CCleaner or reformat.

I'm running Symantec Antivirus, and I use Spybot S&D and Ad-Aware regularly.

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Azzi
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 25, 2009 8:38 PM 
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blow out your fonts folder and windows repair it back?
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Tyral the Kithless
 Post subject: Re: Firefox font issues
PostPosted: Thu Feb 26, 2009 2:57 AM 
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Someone asked me to take a look and see if I had a certain font installed. I looked, it was there. Then miraculously everything started working properly. The symbols were showing up in Firefox, IE, Office, etc.

I have no idea wtf happened. But I'm not going to complain.

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