SunnahWay Author

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Garbled text in browser

I cannot figure this one out. Randomly, some text in various Gmail and browser pages/chat pop ups have garbled text. It is not in an other language but using the same character set. (US keyboard). I have a MacBook Pro (Mid 2015) using MACOS 11.7.9. I am not sure if this is coming form my MAC or in Chrome/Brave. For example, when viewing Gmail the email viewed using Chrome/Brave is garbled but that same email in Safari is not. I cannot figure out how to fix it. Any advice?

Earlier Mac models

Posted on May 21, 2024 4:05 AM

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Posted on May 21, 2024 6:46 AM

One thing to try is to open the Font Book app, go to its Settings, and click on Reset Fonts, and restart your machine.

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May 21, 2024 6:46 AM in response to SunnahWay

One thing to try is to open the Font Book app, go to its Settings, and click on Reset Fonts, and restart your machine.

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May 21, 2024 5:34 AM in response to SunnahWay

If Safari works OK but other browsers do not, you need to ask in the support sites for the other browsers.

If you could post a screen shot of an example from Chrome, someone might be able to suggest what that app is doing wrong.

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May 21, 2024 6:25 AM in response to Tom Gewecke

Thanks I will keep investigating.

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May 21, 2024 7:12 AM in response to Tom Gewecke

Thanks. I restored my fonts. I do not have the settings option in my version. It seems to have fixed it. Hopefully that was it!

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May 21, 2024 7:32 AM in response to SunnahWay

Yes, that option moved to Settings in Ventura and later, I forgot you were running an earlier MacOS version.

Good news that it fixed the problem!

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