Dom
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Since making the switch to Chrome a few months back, i've noticed on a few sites Chrome produces garbled text (as you can see from the above screenshot). The sites render perfectly fine under Firefox and IE, and i can even copy and paste the garbled text it into Notepad/Word and it'll display fine.
Have attempted to Google this a few times but i've never managed to find a solution or the actual cause.
Has anyone got any ideas?
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Sam
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http://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=95290
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Dom
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Cheers Sam but have already tried changing the encoding, as well as the language options, before and it didn't do squat unfortunately 
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Richie
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If it copies fine into notepad then it does suggest encoding issues.
You tried the fix on the boards where it says force encoding to Western (Windows-1252)
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Sam
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Does it make a difference changing the default fonts?
Have you got examples of sites that cause this problem?
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noshua
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What URL? I or someone else can test it too
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Dom
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quote:
Originally posted by Richie
If it copies fine into notepad then it does suggest encoding issues.
You tried the fix on the boards where it says force encoding to Western (Windows-1252)
Yup, doesn't make a difference -
As for sites, here is the one from the screenshots - http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/wordpress-404-pages-essential-tips-and-tools/ and it also does it on twitter -
Sam - Will have a look at changing the fonts, currently Chrome uses Times New Roman and Arial.
Edit - Been through all of the encodings on Chrome, nada
[Edited on 06-03-2012 by Dom]
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Sam
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Dunno if this is any help, but on my Chrome (Mac OS X) checking the 'computed style' of the font-family in the CSS for both Twitter and that other link you gave both specify Helvetica before any other fonts like Arial etc.
Perhaps if you have Helvetica installed it might be corrupt?
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Dom
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You lovely man Sam!! Removed all the Helvetica fonts and all seems ok  
Only issue i use those fonts for design so will have try adding them one by one and seeing what's what.
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Sam
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The font files were probably corrupt so if you reinstall them all should be well.
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Dom
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quote:
Originally posted by Sam
The font files were probably corrupt so if you reinstall them all should be well.
Will give it a go, although i'm confused how they became corrupt? 
Cheers again though!
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Sam
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Anything is possible in Windows
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Dom
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quote:
Originally posted by Sam
Anything is possible in Windows
[Edited on 07-03-2012 by Dom]
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