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Strange square-numerical symbols show as characters in Firefox
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Mar 15, 202614662 viewsConfidence Score0%
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I have been seeing these strange symbols for a while now, and am curious as to what they are, and why they appear. Sometimes, they appear so frequently in one page, the writing is indecipherable. The symbols appear as they do below in Firefox, but they appear as little squares in Internet Explorer.…
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Fix for: Strange square-numerical symbols show as characters in Firefox
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In general Firefox renders all Unicode characters that it can't find a glyph for in your fonts as a box containing the character code. If you go to eg. a Chinese web site and you don't have Chinese fonts installed, you'll get nothing but little boxe…
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