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The font shown on Firefox is all messed up...It shows up some hex codes in a box. What should I do?

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preveeth
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The font shows up some hex codes in a box. Something like the below. ___ |00| |4D|

Thanks

The font shows up some hex codes in a box. Something like the below. ___ |00| |4D| ----- Thanks

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cor-el
cor-el
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Which encoding is selected when you see the hex code?

  • Firefox > Web Developer > Character Encoding
  • View > Character Encoding

You can try to set the Boolean pref gfx.font_rendering.directwrite.use_gdi_table_loading to false true on the about:config page.

Can you post a link on a page where you see it?

If you see such a box with hex code in it then that means that Firefox can't map a character to a specific font and you have to install a font that covers the affected characters.