ZDoom Forum only shows weird script in posts (SOLVED)

[taufan99]

I've tried googling the issue, to no relevant results.

Anybody know what to do?

EDIT: So I re-installed Chrome, this time the 64-bit version, as I initially used the 32-bit version, while my PC is x64. It works!

Edited June 20, 2020 by InDOOMnesia

[Redneckerz]

Do you have an auto translator in the browser or plugin?

 

Which browser?

[taufan99]

2 minutes ago, Redneckerz said:

Do you have an auto translator in the browser or plugin?

 

Which browser?

Google Chrome. And I've disabled the translator, still to no avail.

[Dark Pulse]

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(Translation: Try logging out, then logging back in. Try clearing your cookies. Try a different browser. Try disabling extensions.)

[vanilla_d00m]

This happened to me too when I was using DOSbox.  It had all these different symbols for the letters.  I fixed it by just using one DOSbox version.

[taufan99]

1 hour ago, Dark Pulse said:

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(Translation: Try logging out, then logging back in. Try clearing your cookies. Try a different browser. Try disabling extensions.)

Looks okay in Firefox. Thank you, although I'm still looking forward to solving this issue on Chrome.

4 minutes ago, vanilla_d00m said:

This happened to me too when I was using DOSbox.  It had all these different symbols for the letters.  I fixed it by just using one DOSbox version.

What does this have to do with DOSBox?

[smeghammer]

On 6/18/2020 at 8:34 AM, InDOOMnesia said:

I've tried googling the issue, to no relevant results.

Anybody know what to do?

 

Is this still a thing?

 

Try using dev tools (F12 with relevant tab focussed) and look in the console. If there are javascript errors in the console, it may give you a clue as to what is going on.

 

It is also possible that the language or encoding settings are screwed (UTF-8 can corrupt if a non-utf-8 encoding is in use.). The fact that it is a post referring to a language display thing in Slade suggests the latter. Was it just THIS post (the title etc. look OK), or was it other posts? The fact that just the post body content screwed up is very odd though.

 

BTW, I just looked, and this post displays fine for me (Chrome v83, Ubuntu). 

[taufan99]

14 minutes ago, smeghammer said:

 

Is this still a thing?

 

Try using dev tools (F12 with relevant tab focussed) and look in the console. If there are javascript errors in the console, it may give you a clue as to what is going on.

 

It is also possible that the language or encoding settings are screwed (UTF-8 can corrupt if a non-utf-8 encoding is in use.). The fact that it is a post referring to a language display thing in Slade suggests the latter. Was it just THIS post (the title etc. look OK), or was it other posts? The fact that just the post body content screwed up is very odd though.

 

BTW, I just looked, and this post displays fine for me (Chrome v83, Ubuntu). 

Yep, and it includes all posts in the ZDoom forum.

I have checked with the dev tools, but nothing weird appears. The fonts aren't actually corrupted, either.

[smeghammer]

Hmm. There seem to be quite a few about disabling hardware acceleration:

 

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/t/693072/text-being-distortedobscured/ 

https://computertutorflorida.com/2019/07/how-to-fix-chrome-displaying-weird-characters/

...

 

but the examples don't seem to be the same text display you are getting.

 

I have seem similar weird display issues with a crap-load of tabs open - Chrome does use a lot of RAM and even if you close it down thee may still be processes running. A hard restart or manually killing the Chrome processes in task manager will sort that.

 

The characters (odd umlaut-ed stuff) you are showing look very much like display artefacts you can get on badly coded web pages (where the encoding specified is not that used by the browser - but I don't think that applies here). All non-ASCII characters are specified by a code sequence, and that code sequence 'language' needs to be specified in the browser if the webpage does not declare it in either the HTTP response or the HTML header. As I said, this is unlikely for this site as I and others are seeing it as it should be.

 

The only thing I can think of without going full-on webdev is that either your PC is running out of memory (sometimes I have seen similar artefacts after I opened 30 or so tabs and the memory use maxes out) or something has changed in the chrome settings. May be worth looking at the codepage and/or encoding settings:

 

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/set-character-encoding/bpojelgakakmcfmjfilgdlmhefphglae?hl=en#:~:text=Provide right-click menu to,page default" to cancel it.

https://superuser.com/questions/1160003/how-do-i-change-the-character-encoding-for-a-webpage-in-chrome

 

Hope these are of use.

 

 

 

[taufan99]

So I inspected the ZDoom forum and unchecked the font-family element from the .content element (on this thread), and it actually works. However, even then, that method is still rather hacky, and I want to keep that change across.

Oh, I've also used that plug-in, and it doesn't seem to work.

My Chrome is up to date.

Edited June 19, 2020 by InDOOMnesia

[taufan99]

Tried re-installing Chrome (this time the 64-bit version), as it turns out that I initially used the 32-bit version, while my PC is x64. It works!