After a few releases of google chrome browser a new bug appeared which was not in previous versions.
I have a web page which shows date and time in Arabic characters.
there is a picture:
it was just fine before updates, and it is fine in other browsers.
I don't know if the problem is from my code (not defining some thing) or it's chrome new bug.
and notice that I use a localizer for Iran.
and therefor my fonts are Persian and using UTF-8 char-set
note that just number between two slashes or two dots change and etc.
I've been finding a solution for this problem. I wonder why chrome displays some spaces and font changes for the japanese characters in my website like this:
Google Chrome displaying the Japanese text
While in Microsoft Edge and Mozilla Firefox is working fine:
Mozilla and Edge
Any help will do. Thank you.
Chrome version 58.0.3029.96 (64-bit)
Firefox version 53.0 (32-bit)
Edge version 38.14393.1066.0
Found already the solution for this issue. I use the standard font family for Japanese characters like MS PGothic and now i dont have problem anymore with the spacing.
Link here:
Japanese standard web fonts
I have a page that uses unicode control character (\u009d) inside.in windows 8 and google chrome browser there is no problem showing this char but in windows 10 using google chrome this char shows as a rectangle
but using other browsers like firefox or microsoft edge there is no problem at all
This is weird that I have the opposited probelem.
'\u0001' shows nothing in firefox(53.0.2 64 version), edge, ie10.
But on my office pc '\u0001' shows special pic with chrome.
And on my personal pc with different version chrome it shows another pic which is different with the pic as above.
I guess the browser control the vision of the chars. Different browser with version show different results.
i have a webpage that uses webdings extensively to show downward arrow.
Following code demonstrates how it is achieved.
<html>
<body>
The webding font below should render to a downward arrow.
<p style="font-family: webdings">6</p>
</body>
</html>
But after recently updating chrome, i see the number 6 instead of the expected downward arrow symbol.
Before update 52 (tested on update 49)
After update 52
Webdings is a web safe font hence i believe it must be rendered uniformly across all browsers.
Are there any settings in chrome to get back the required behavior?
Let me know alternate solutions if not.
I am having the same problem. Tried the beta of Chrome 53 and its still broken but it appears to be fixed in the Dev version of Chrome 54. Not sure how long it takes for these versions to get released so looks like our site will stay messed up for now.
I tried it in several workstations, sometimes the Characters are displayed properly, sometimes only the last part is displayed. Any idea what is causing this? Any solution?
Here is the HTML:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/20727629/chi/chi.html
Here is the image of browser with issue:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/20727629/chi/chi_issue.gif
Here is the image of browser showing Chinese characters correctly:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/20727629/chi/chi.gif
I've tried several things:
In Windows, setting Regional Settings Format and Language to Chinese (Hong Kong Sar) sometimes fix it for Firefox (it worked in Windows Server 2003, and Windows 7), but IE and Chrome still displays squares or blank for some Chinese chars. Also it didn't work in Windows XP machine I tried.
For XP, In Regional Settings installed files East Asian languages but it didn't fix the problem.
In IE, I tried Tools -> Internet Options, setting Font of Chinese to MingLiu or other Chinese fonts. Didn't work.
Tested in the ff environment (English OS):
Windows 7
-Works in FF after setting Regional settings to Chinese. IE and Chrome still don't display it correctly.
Windows Server 2003
-Works in FF after setting Regional settings to Chinese. IE and Chrome still don't display it correctly.
Windows XP
-Problem FF, Chrome, IE
Ubuntu
-Problem
It seems to me, that many of these characters are in the Unicode Private Use Area. If and how those characters are displayed is highly platform- and font-dependend.
My FF on Linux shows the same rendering as the issue graphic. It means, that there is no character in the list of tried fonts to render the codepoint, and a fallback is used.
The characters, as far as I can oversee, are also present as other codepoints. Use these instead of the Private Use ones, and your chances to get the text rendered will much improve.
For example, you use U+F303 for the first character, the correct one would be U+31C0.
Please try diffrent encoding / character set. You are using UTF-8.
Most of chinese websites use gb2312 (simplified) or Big5 (traditional).
Do you know how to convert UTF-8 text file to diffrent encoding?
The problematic characters seems to be characters in the Big5-HKSCS charset. Convert them to Unicode.