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Weird characters instead of headings

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I've just logged into my account at cushyCMS and when typing my email address into the login box it appeared as weird characters and then once logged in I noticed all the headings were messed up as well.

 

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How do I fix this?

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I just tried to add a site and can't as it's just like typing gobbledeegook - I don't know what is causing this!

The cushyCMS page uses:

 

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en" xml:lang="en">

 

and:

 

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />

 

so I don't think it's a character encoding issue on their part.

 

Which means the problem could be at browser-level or even OS-level. If you have font management software installed, it could be that a particular font is deactivated and is being substituted for another by the software. (I have experience of this on macs only.) Or it could be a system font that is corrupted or has been deleted and the OS is substituting another.

 

My reply is vague, but I hope it helps!

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I've not got any font management software installed. I'm using a PC running windows XP and using the latest Firefox browser.

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just tried the site in internet explorer and it looks fine in that - so it must be something to do with firefox...

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If I set the font option in firefox to dissallow websites to choose their own fonts - the page displays fine in my chosen font and the titles show up ok. I don't particularly want to use this setting so if anyone else knows of a solution that'd be great, but in the meantime this is a good temporary fix.

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oops - I posted at the same time as you...I tried changing the character encoding within the tools > options menu and used a few different ones and it made no difference. I didn't realise there was a character encoding menu under view - I'll give that a go. Cheers.

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I tried all the western encodings and none of them make any difference. I tried universal and abunch of others and none of them work. Weird, very weird.

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