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random bolding of characters


tai4ji2x

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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...)

 

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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.

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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.

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