Lately I have been seeing strange Unicode on multiple sites when using firefox. I have firefox 3.6.1.3 on a windows 7 machine. Has anyone else seen this? I did the usual google search but none of the solutions are working for me. Am seeing this on sites like http://techrepublic.com , http://www.digg.com , http://squareup.com and many more.
Any ideas from the almighty techrepublic community?
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How do I fix the strange letters in firefox?
Updated - 29th Jan 2011
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For clarification, the letters look like this on TechRepublic - https://img.skitch.com/20110131-fa9cpexfsmt2qw95whn833q723.png
jerang@...
30th Jan 2011
One more thing - realized all the websites I have issues with have 'Helvetica' as a main font-family -- going to try uninstalling all my helvetica fonts.
jerang@...
4th Feb 2011
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Uninstall corrupt helvetica fonts ...
Windows 7 has issues with the Helvetica font especially in Firefox 3. All you have to do is uninstall the corrupt Helvetica fonts on your machine. The corrupt files will look like this - http://s3.amazonaws.com/readers/2010/06/10/jz9um1_1.jpg Make sure your Firefox browser is not open during this process.
Let me know if that works for you!
Let me know if that works for you!
Updated - 18th Feb 2011
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If I could vote twice, I would do it for this answer. That was exactly the isse - had three corrupt helvetica fonts in there.
jerang@...
18th Feb 2011
This has been driving me crazy for the last 6 months, uninstalling/installing, malware testing, etc... nothing had fixed it until this post!!
Thank you, thank you, thank you!
Thank you, thank you, thank you!
sradforth
8th Mar 2011
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Such as?
What kind of strange letters? Certainly, i see odd characters occasionally, as something was posted with a character set that my browser is not equipped to render properly, or perhaps the site software mangled the original characters. (At TR, certain characters are rendered as a series of question marks, but this isn't new.)
29th Jan 2011
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I attached screenshots to the clarification section.
jerang@...
4th Feb 2011
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I only ever saw it
in the title bar.
short term solution: restart computer
long term solution: get a new browser.
short term solution: restart computer
long term solution: get a new browser.
31st Jan 2011
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Unfortunately the short term solution didn't help and I would love to keep using firefox for now.
jerang@...
1st Feb 2011
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What is the browser character encoding set for?
Also, next time you see this, restart FF in safe mode (no add-ons) and see if the same behavior occurs.
31st Jan 2011
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Tried this but seeing the unicode. I am starting to think it's a font I have installed on my machine.
jerang@...
1st Feb 2011
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How about
Browser languages?
1st Feb 2011
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Doesn't seem like this is the issue, checked my settings and the fonts are set for the western language which is correct.
jerang@...
4th Feb 2011
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Go into your Firefox browser.....
And change the "Western" ISO to:
Western (ISO-8859-1)
You might need to re-start Firefox (or your computer) for the changes to take place
Hope this does the trick for you.
Western (ISO-8859-1)
You might need to re-start Firefox (or your computer) for the changes to take place
Hope this does the trick for you.
Updated - 4th Feb 2011
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Went into my preferences, selected the content tab - chose advanced by the fonts & colors and found that my character encoding is set to "western ISO-8859-1".
Looks like this was already set and am still having the problems.
Looks like this was already set and am still having the problems.
jerang@...
4th Feb 2011
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Sounds like you have a bug in your firefox...
Unistall your firefox browser and then (carefully) go into your registry (start > run) then type in "regedit" go to "search > find" and input "firefox", delete ALL that relates to firefox, when all is done restart your computer. If you have Ccleaner, download here if you have not: http://www.filehippo.com/download_ccleaner/download/1d59b13e3d0824a0c054077615cab5c3/
And run ccleaner to clear any missing files then download a good version of firefox.
Hope all goes well.
And run ccleaner to clear any missing files then download a good version of firefox.
Hope all goes well.
5th Feb 2011
