tai4ji2x Posted November 12, 2015 at 01:20 PM Report Posted November 12, 2015 at 01:20 PM has anyone else experienced this? it happens with many (but not all) web pages i view and documents that i work with. something like 1/4 to 1/3 of all the characters are randomly bolded. with web searches and when writing wordpress blog entries, it ALWAYS happens. not sure when this phenomenon started, but i don't remember it being a problem about 4 or 5 years ago. therefore i can't really pin down what i must have [un]installed to cause it. granted, i am also admittedly using a clunky 9-yr old laptop, still chugging along on windows xp. (i know, i know...) Quote
daofeishi Posted November 12, 2015 at 01:50 PM Report Posted November 12, 2015 at 01:50 PM It looks like a font problem. Have you tried to change the browser's default font to a full unicode font? Try one of the other fonts installed, or use Google's https://www.google.com/get/noto/ Quote
roddy Posted November 12, 2015 at 01:54 PM Report Posted November 12, 2015 at 01:54 PM Looks like a font issue, yeah - dig down into settings and have a look. There may be separate settings for Asian fonts or something. Also, a free tip - Cleartype. Quote
imron Posted November 13, 2015 at 12:12 AM Report Posted November 13, 2015 at 12:12 AM It's definitely a font problem, in particular the browser can't find the characters in whatever font you have configured and it substitutes them from a different font rather than having empty blocks on the page. In addition to control panel settings, I would also consider checking out the firefox settings and see what the default font is for Chinese language. 1 Quote
dwq Posted November 13, 2015 at 12:32 AM Report Posted November 13, 2015 at 12:32 AM Roddy, most of the Chinese fonts use embedded bitmap at screen resolutions. Which means unfortunately no amount of Cleartype tuning is going to change their appearance. 1 Quote
roddy Posted November 13, 2015 at 12:47 AM Report Posted November 13, 2015 at 12:47 AM Yep, but it makes all the other languages much prettier. I always feel sorry for people who post screenshots and you can see they haven't found out about it yet... Quote
imron Posted November 13, 2015 at 01:57 AM Report Posted November 13, 2015 at 01:57 AM Hah, also, upon further examination, take look at the characters that are appearing differently. Do you notice something that they all have in common? That's right, they're all simplified characters - traditional characters all look fine. So I'm guessing whatever font you have configured is a traditional only font that doesn't have many (any) simplified characters in it and the OS is substituting in characters from a font that does have them. 1 Quote
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