Unintentional Glitch Art
June 19, 2012 8:58 AM Subscribe
Weirdest Firefox problem ever. Some text, across different sites, appears scrambled -- or, more accurately is rot-2. Uninstalling, deleting profile and re-installing did not help. WTF?
It affects some text, but not all. I checked the character encoding but switching between Western and Unicode doesn't affect it. If it's an add-on, it's one I can't seem to find/disable.
When I copy the rot-2 text and then paste it, what's pasted is transformed to what the text should have been.
Here are a few screenshots:
The add-ons screen
On Facebook
On Tumblr
Anyone run across something like this before or know what's going on?
It affects some text, but not all. I checked the character encoding but switching between Western and Unicode doesn't affect it. If it's an add-on, it's one I can't seem to find/disable.
When I copy the rot-2 text and then paste it, what's pasted is transformed to what the text should have been.
Here are a few screenshots:
The add-ons screen
On Facebook
On Tumblr
Anyone run across something like this before or know what's going on?
Response by poster: No, it's my connection (although that upsidedown text prank is pretty funny). Also, doesn't affect IE or Chrome.
posted by rottytooth at 9:37 AM on June 19, 2012
posted by rottytooth at 9:37 AM on June 19, 2012
Best answer: This looks like a related problem. Perhaps try the solution proposed there?
posted by firesine at 10:25 AM on June 19, 2012
posted by firesine at 10:25 AM on June 19, 2012
Best answer: Others have suggested it could be the result of a corrupted font on your system (e.g. Helvetica in these examples)
posted by firesine at 10:31 AM on June 19, 2012
posted by firesine at 10:31 AM on June 19, 2012
Response by poster: Yes, it's a corrupted font: apparently Lucida Grande (bold). Thanks!
posted by rottytooth at 10:53 AM on June 19, 2012
posted by rottytooth at 10:53 AM on June 19, 2012
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posted by dozo at 9:25 AM on June 19, 2012