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Today Chrome started behaving in a rather weird way. Some websites no longer display special characters properly. For example:
- I see a
6instead of anábut if I copy and paste the character itself I see aná - I see a
йinstead of anébut if I copy and paste the character itself I see ané
The list goes on. Here comes the weird part: If I fire up Internet Explorer I see the same but in Firefox I do not see the text at all.
I tried setting the character encoding but nothing works.
It is even more weird that not all websites work the same way. On some sites everything is fine from all browsers (like gmail) but others have this issue. As far as I can remember I did not install any new software since yesterday. I'm using Windows 7.
Do you have any idea what could be the problem?
Adam Arold
Posted 2014-05-02T23:15:07.997
Reputation: 607
Did anyone happen to change your regional settings - language in particular? – itsols – 2014-05-03T00:46:27.360
Sorry, I forgot to mention: In my regional settings (and internet settings) I have Hungary (which is OK) and I use 2 keyboard layouts:
ENandHU. This was the case before but I noticed a small change: If I swap toENthe back tick (`) works if I press it once. Before this character issue appeared the back tick was working in a weird way: If I pressed it once nothing happened but if I pressed any key after the back tick press both characters appeared on the srceen. – Adam Arold – 2014-05-03T01:10:36.723I noticed this behaviour on Windows 7 running Visual Basic - I thought it was a feature :) – itsols – 2014-05-03T09:38:27.020
This back tick behaviour shouldn't be connected with your issue and is expected, see Dead key on Wikipedia.
– cremor – 2014-05-03T10:43:38.517Might be a corrupt font. You can identify and adjust the fonts used on problematic pages by playing around in Chrome's inspector. Given that it's not happening in Firefox, the issue could be a default font potentially shared by Chrome and IE. Instructions for changing them: Chrome and IE
– epimorphic – 2014-05-13T10:05:11.600Yea I just realized that yesterday. It was a corrupted
Verdanafont. Don't know how it happened though. – Adam Arold – 2014-05-13T12:59:26.927