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Unicode characters suddenly start displaying as boxes in some applications
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Mar 15, 202699328 viewsConfidence Score0%
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I noticed that Unicode characters suddenly stopped displaying in some applications, so far Notepad++ and Skype, when they were appearing previously. Instead they appear as boxes. They were working before, but I believe that it broke after a restart. I can even type them into the Skype input window …
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I had this issue. Stumbled upon the following setting in Windows 7 (professional): Hide fonts based on language settings was enabled. I disabled it and a big chunk of fonts appeared for me ... which allowed Eclipse to start displaying fonts that had…
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