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Font Weirdness

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I often get pages on Firefox, or in my e-mail, with strange font characters. an example: LifeLock® I do not see these in Safari. I'm not using a weird font. How can I find out what the problem is??

I often get pages on Firefox, or in my e-mail, with strange font characters. an example: LifeLock® I do not see these in Safari. I'm not using a weird font. How can I find out what the problem is??

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Make sure that you have selected UTF-8 encoding.

  • View > Character Encoding
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That's what's selected and it hasn't been changed. Sorry but thanks for the try. Anybody else want to go at this one??

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Do you have a link to a web page with that problem?

Sometimes it is caused by copying UTF-8 encoded text to a 8 bit Western encoded page and in that case there is nothing to do about it.

You can see this if you select Western ISO-8859-1 on this page:


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