I do not remember manually setting the character encoding to anything since installation. I am using FireFox 5 and the character encoding currently appears to be "UNICODE (UTF-8)". So my question is what's going on? What should I do to ensure that as many people as possible around the world can view my text as I originally intended? Should I be using those special html sequences like £įor all non alphanumeric characters? Should I worry at all?Įdit: Right now I have the problem occurring on this page. I enabled ClearType with the default settings by going to the Display control panel, choosing Adjust ClearType text on the left, and checking the box entitled Turn on ClearType. Very polite of it, unlike Internet Explorer which runs with ClearType enabled all the time. I'm left with that nagging feeling that perhaps half the planet is seeing my website with funny question marks all over it. Chrome obeys the system preference and will not use it if it’s disabled. Check the box beside Show keyboard and emoji viewers in menu bar. You should ideally be on the Keyboard tab. Open System Preferences by click on the ( ) Apple Logo on the top-left corner of your screen and then click on Keyboard. signing in to shows strange characters - sometimes more, sometimes less.
My immediate thought is that my browser got into some strange state because I was looking at some foreign website with strange characters, but I'm never quite sure. How to Quickly Insert Special Characters on macOS. I am having a similar issue running on a MAC OS 10.5.8 and firefox 4.0.1. These might appear where I had expected to see hyphens or quotes or apostrophes. Then one day I look at the page and see a random sprinkling of white question marks against dark diamond shapes. Perhaps on a variety of browsers on a variety of PC's. I may look at it a great many times over the coming weeks or months as I make additions here and there. Issue is facing for few user on the modern SharePoint pag. It keeps asking additional credentials, but entering those credentials does not solve the issue. I look at it in my browser, everything appears fine. Hello, Recently On our customer tenant for few user facing 'Click to provide additional credentials.' issue. Although users have reported the Chrome crashes to Google in a bid to fix Google Chrome freezing on macOS 10. The bug is so severe that you may experience numerous crashes in a day hence affecting your browsing activities. The scenario goes like this: I create the site. Some Mac users have reported a Google Chrome crash on macOS 10.15. But there is one recurring problem which I have never quite sorted out involving strange characters. Most of them appear to work fine most of the time. Go to control panel, regional options and set the keyboard layout to match your kayboard. My Chrome browser has rather innocuous plug-ins installed and no apparent signs of malware. I'm now stuck with a) not ever using my postscript fonts again b) trying to source and buy (at a great cost) all my fonts as truetype or other c) try to use an font conversion program (which will take days and may not work correctly).I have created many very simple pure HTML websites over the years. You have set the keyboard layout incorrectly. However, while debugging a Google Chrome browser issue, in my newly installed Macbook Pro/Chrome, using the URL chrome://net-internals/dns, I found similar requests in my Chrome DNS statistics page.
When you press Ctrl+Shift+U in an input field on a Chromebook, you’ll get a little underlined u on your screen. Otherwise why would you need a font manager? How to Type Special Characters with a Chromebook: Unicode Input. Extensis customers have to be, like me, designers, or at least people with many many fonts. However, my problem is, nowhere on the Apple or Extensis product info does it tell you that your postscript fonts will be rendered useless upon upgrade. And amazingly, Apple, Google and few others have decided to move away from Postscript, granted it is old technology. You'll probably find that 100% of them are Postscript fonts. No such issue in Word, Exel, Firefox.īut here's what I found out on the phone with Extensis today. you use Suitcase Fusion or some other font manager, you have fonts you've found and installed over the years and the question marks instead of proper characters only show up in Apple products, Numbers, Pages, Mail, Safari. I'm guessing that most people are in this boat.
I've tried all the solutions I've seen on the web from the many people that seem to be experiencing the same. I have been having this problem ever since upgrading to Sierra and Suitcase Fusion 7.