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Firefox fails to show Arabic characters

sina.recherche
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Hi,

As the attached screenshot shows, my browser fails to correctly show Arabic characters in textboxes. Sometime, the same problem happens when loading a page too. I tested it with Arabic, Persian and Kurdish keyboards and still get the same problem.

My Firefox version is 113.02 (64-bit). I use an Apple M1 Pro (Ventura 13.2.1).

This problem exists since early 2023.

Hi, As the attached screenshot shows, my browser '''fails to correctly show Arabic characters''' in textboxes. Sometime, the same problem happens when loading a page too. I tested it with Arabic, Persian and Kurdish keyboards and still get the same problem. My Firefox version is 113.02 (64-bit). I use an Apple M1 Pro (Ventura 13.2.1). This problem exists since early 2023.
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cor-el
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This could be a problem with the font that is used that doesn't have glyphs for those Arabic characters.

You can right-click and select "Inspect" to open the built-in Inspector with this element selected.

You can check in the Rules tab in the right panel in the Inspector what font-family is used for selected text. You can check in the Fonts tab in the right panel in the Inspector what font is actually used because Firefox might be using a different font than specified by the website.

sina.recherche
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Thanks for your help.

I figured out what that problem is: the extension AdBlocker for YouTube! I disabled it and everything works normally.