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Please Help - FF displays a square bow with characters in it, not a font.

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4x4junky
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I have read some of the answers about this and I have made adjustments as they talked about an none of them worked.

I have a fresh install of 3.6.12 on a newly built machine. In Facebook & Twitter and any translator page and many other sites and or Apps, I end up with that square box with a hex number (I see it called) I have made the adjustments in "allow sites to use there fonts" and some other ideas and each time I have restarted FF and even the machine a few times after an adjustment.

I use translator pages often and none of them will display a proper characters.

Please, I need to solve this Problem!

Thank You

I have read some of the answers about this and I have made adjustments as they talked about an none of them worked. I have a fresh install of 3.6.12 on a newly built machine. In Facebook & Twitter and any translator page and many other sites and or Apps, I end up with that square box with a hex number (I see it called) I have made the adjustments in "allow sites to use there fonts" and some other ideas and each time I have restarted FF and even the machine a few times after an adjustment. I use translator pages often and none of them will display a proper characters. Please, I need to solve this Problem! Thank You

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Make sure that you have installed East Asian language support and support for complex scripts:

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cor-el
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Make sure that you have installed East Asian language support and support for complex scripts:

4x4junky
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Cor-el,

That did it. It needed the East Asian language installation.

Thank You !!

Steve