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For others without that specific font or what have you: "Unicode Text Converter" On my windows box with chrome all i see are empty boxes.

by robjh 12y ago

TheAnimus 12y ago
Use IE (wow, don't say that often) it has much better typography support, if you are on a high DPI display, chrome just looks awful.
- rossy 12y ago
  > if you are on a high DPI display, chrome just looks awful I'm fairly sure this is no longer the case. Chrome is high-DPI aware on Windows now, and it uses DirectWrite for font rendering, the same as IE. It just can't display these characters for some reason.
  - mahouse 12y ago
    I think he does not only mean the font rendering, but the UI itself. Anyway, DirectWrite was horrible at high DPI, if I remember correctly.
    - rossy 12y ago
      Nope, the UI got an update too. It renders at high-DPI on Windows. Chrome on a high-DPI machine looks exactly the same as on a low-DPI machine, except sharper. It used to be plagued with issues, but I'm fairly sure they're all gone now. DirectWrite isn't perfect. It still has weird hinting and kerning at high-DPI with some fonts, but it's better than GDI. I find Chrome better than IE, actually. IE ignores my DPI settings and scales pages to 250%, so everything looks too large. Chrome renders correctly at 200%.
- robjh 12y ago
  That's interesting. These comments make a lot more sense in IE11. 𝒃𝒆𝒔𝒕 𝒗𝒊𝒆𝒘𝒆𝒅 𝒊𝒏 𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒏𝒆𝒕 𝒆𝒙𝒑𝒍𝒐𝒓𝒆𝒓 11 This reminds me of the 1990s. haha
stoolpigeon 12y ago
On my Fedora box with Chrome negative circled, squared and negative squared don't show up but everything else does. Firefox and Konqueror are the same so I imagine it is a font issue.
rikkus 12y ago
Here too - except in the title (tab) - I can see the text.
tormeh 12y ago
Same with Chrome and Opera on Android 5.0
teach 12y ago
Same here. I wonder why Chrome on Windows doesn't work. Fortunately I'd seen this story on my Ubuntu box before leaving home, so I wasn't totally out of the loop.
halviti 12y ago
I thought it was emoticons at first. Now I can see the title. Works fine on chrome for mac, doesn't work on chrome for windows.
lsaferite 12y ago
What's weird for me is that Chrome 38 on Win 8.1 is showing the title in the tab but is just boxes on the actual page.
tehmaco 12y ago
I had the same problem - this page has some fonts you can download, which fixed the problem for me (Windows 7, Chrome 38) http://gschoppe.com/fixing-unicode-support-in-google-chrome/ http://gschoppe.com/fixing-unicode-support-in-google-chrome/
- touristtam 12y ago
  Thanks I was having the same issue on Windows 7 Chromium v39

For others without that specific font or what have you: "Unicode Text Converter" On my windows box with chrome all i see are empty boxes.

by robjh 12y ago

For others without that specific font or what have you: "Unicode Text Converter" On my windows box with chrome all i see are empty boxes.

TheAnimus 12y ago

Use IE (wow, don't say that often) it has much better typography support, if you are on a high DPI display, chrome just looks awful.

rossy 12y ago
> if you are on a high DPI display, chrome just looks awful I'm fairly sure this is no longer the case. Chrome is high-DPI aware on Windows now, and it uses DirectWrite for font rendering, the same as IE. It just can't display these characters for some reason.
- mahouse 12y ago
  I think he does not only mean the font rendering, but the UI itself. Anyway, DirectWrite was horrible at high DPI, if I remember correctly.
  - rossy 12y ago
    Nope, the UI got an update too. It renders at high-DPI on Windows. Chrome on a high-DPI machine looks exactly the same as on a low-DPI machine, except sharper. It used to be plagued with issues, but I'm fairly sure they're all gone now. DirectWrite isn't perfect. It still has weird hinting and kerning at high-DPI with some fonts, but it's better than GDI. I find Chrome better than IE, actually. IE ignores my DPI settings and scales pages to 250%, so everything looks too large. Chrome renders correctly at 200%.
robjh 12y ago
That's interesting. These comments make a lot more sense in IE11. 𝒃𝒆𝒔𝒕 𝒗𝒊𝒆𝒘𝒆𝒅 𝒊𝒏 𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒏𝒆𝒕 𝒆𝒙𝒑𝒍𝒐𝒓𝒆𝒓 11 This reminds me of the 1990s. haha

stoolpigeon 12y ago

On my Fedora box with Chrome negative circled, squared and negative squared don't show up but everything else does. Firefox and Konqueror are the same so I imagine it is a font issue.

rikkus 12y ago

Here too - except in the title (tab) - I can see the text.

tormeh 12y ago

Same with Chrome and Opera on Android 5.0

teach 12y ago

Same here. I wonder why Chrome on Windows doesn't work. Fortunately I'd seen this story on my Ubuntu box before leaving home, so I wasn't totally out of the loop.

halviti 12y ago

I thought it was emoticons at first. Now I can see the title. Works fine on chrome for mac, doesn't work on chrome for windows.

lsaferite 12y ago

What's weird for me is that Chrome 38 on Win 8.1 is showing the title in the tab but is just boxes on the actual page.

tehmaco 12y ago

I had the same problem - this page has some fonts you can download, which fixed the problem for me (Windows 7, Chrome 38) http://gschoppe.com/fixing-unicode-support-in-google-chrome/ http://gschoppe.com/fixing-unicode-support-in-google-chrome/

touristtam 12y ago
Thanks I was having the same issue on Windows 7 Chromium v39