Wierd Characters in Firefox
Wierd Characters in Firefox
Certain Characters in Firefox wig out and give me these wierd characters like this:私 On my screen it looks like a box with some letters and numbers in it. Any fix for this?
maybe see what type of encoding your firefox is currently set to? try view>character encoding.
mine's set at UTF-8 right now and everything seems fine. ASCII would also be worth a shot, although it's decreasing in popularity, so some pages might come out weird.
mine's set at UTF-8 right now and everything seems fine. ASCII would also be worth a shot, although it's decreasing in popularity, so some pages might come out weird.
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Even if the website is set to Unicode...ASCII would still work just fine for normal characters as they share the same space for Latin characters.[cc]z@nd! wrote:maybe see what type of encoding your firefox is currently set to? try view>character encoding.
mine's set at UTF-8 right now and everything seems fine. ASCII would also be worth a shot, although it's decreasing in popularity, so some pages might come out weird.
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The issue is that your computer/browser does not have the character sets necessary to display those characters. In other browsers, you'll likely see either just an empty square or no character at all, unless that browser has the characters embedded within its files, which I presume most don't. The character in your post is visible to me, because I have East Asian characters installed (An option on the XP install disc). Firefox 3 renders these characters with the numbers inside the box so you can identify which character is causing the issue, as opposed to a browser such as Firefox 2, which would just render an empty box I believe. I don't know that there's a specific fix for the browser, because it isn't a browser issue per se, but you could install the language packs on your computer through your OS disc. You'll see some issues with this on HM, because when the servers switched the character sets changed or something, and that's an issue with the site, not your browser or computer.
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It can also be the websites fault if they have put the wrong encoding in the meta tags. It happened on my site for a while when I was using ajax to call some script and it kept coming up with strange characters. If the content has been taken from other sites it can cause problems.
Firefox 3 usually does big black boxes with symbols when it doesn't know what to do doesn't it? This makes it more obvious than previous versions which is probably why you are noticing it more.
Firefox 3 usually does big black boxes with symbols when it doesn't know what to do doesn't it? This makes it more obvious than previous versions which is probably why you are noticing it more.
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Re: Wierd Characters in Firefox
I'm using FF2, and I see a Japanese character.Cuda wrote:Certain Characters in Firefox wig out and give me these wierd characters like this:私 On my screen it looks like a box with some letters and numbers in it. Any fix for this?