Re: Showing garbage instead of foreign fonts in Mozilla and Firefox?

On 3/16/2005 1:45 AM PT, Roland wrote:

> On 15-3-2005 23:07, Phillip Pi wrote:
> 
>> Hello.
>>
>> I am trying to figure out why http://bsnet.eu.org/~kris/index.html (my 
>> friend's site) is showing bunch of unreadable foreign characters. If 
>> you view it in Internet Explorer v6.0 SP1 (used Windows 2000 SP4 with 
>> all updates), then it is fine. Then, go back to Mozilla and do a force 
>> reload on the same page, and the foreign characters/fonts show up 
>> correctly!
>>
>> What's going on? Is Mozilla not getting the fonts or something? A 
>> caching problem? Thank you in advance. :)
> 
> 
> They displayed OK on the first access in Moz 1.7.5 (Win2000/SP4). I saw 
> some Hebrew characters in the top right corners, and other foreign 
> characters in the Slovenian(?) sections on the page. Same with Firefox 
> 1.0.1 and IE6.
> 
> Does it happen every time after you close and revisit the page, or every 
> time after you restart Mozilla. Does visiting the page in IE cure it, or 
> is a shift reload in Mozilla sufficient?

It only happens the first time before viewing it in IE6. You can view 
the discussion from others and me on 
http://p211.ezboard.com/fantfarmtheantfarmsmessageboard.showMessage?topicID=4322.topic 
...


> What do you see? Do these character simple not appear, or do they show 
> as rectangular boxes? Both the Hebrew and Slovenian character?

http://www.blueboard.com/ants/kris_website.jpg is an example I see as well.
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Phillip Pi
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Symantec Corporation
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