Broken Text Encoding After Routine OS Update
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noslay last edited by
@burnout426 said in Broken Text Encoding After Routine OS Update:
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Thanks for your suggestion. Unfortunately, the issue persisted in this test setup. See attached screenshot from the freshly opened test.
@sgunhouse this is not iOS and does not involve emojis or non-standard fonts.
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noslay last edited by
@sgunhouse Can you be significantly more concrete? Otherwise this would not appear to be the right track. Thanks.
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burnout426 Volunteer last edited by
@noslay said in Broken Text Encoding After Routine OS Update:
Unfortunately, the issue persisted in this test setup.
Any difference with graphics acceleration disabled at the URL
opera://settings/system?You could uninstall Opera (don't choose to delete your data when uninstalling) and reinstall it just to make sure its program files are not corrupted.
You can restart macOS if you haven't yet since you discovered the issue.
You can test in Opera Developer just to test if it happens there too or not. Maybe it's fixed there. You can get it from the Developer section at https://www.opera.com/download.
You can test in Opera GX to see if it happens there too or not.
Not sure what other browsers you tested in, but you can test specifically in Vivaldi and Brave for example to see if it happens there too or not.
I guess you can load the Font Book app, select all your fonts, goto "File" and choose "Validate selection" to check for font issues.
If you can roll back the update and reinstall the update, that might do the trick.
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noslay last edited by
Thanks for these additional suggestions.
No difference with graphics acceleration disabled.
I have restarted my computer multiple times.
I am able to use Safari, Chrome, and Firefox without this issue at all. Before updating to Opera version 122, I had been on version 114, and it was while on that version that I first experienced the error.
I downloaded OperaGX - same problem. Downloaded Vivaldi – somewhat better there, but issue still present. Downloaded Brave – no problems there.
Unfortunately I do not have any way of rolling back the OS update.
I checked Font Book. There are numerous validation problems. I do not know how to resolve them. There only seem to be "serious problems" with exotic fonts that have no bearing here. Nearly every font is getting flagged for the "minor problem" of having a duplicate. However, these alleged duplicates are not visible anywhere. I have ran the automated function to resolve duplicates multiple times. ...How could these minor Font Book hiccups could kill text in Opera and not other browsers?
I have noticed other weird behaviors that I do not understand, particularly when googling. For example, this search gets me ?-boxes...
https://www.google.com/search?client=opera&q=mandarin+language&sourceid=opera&iе=UTF-8&0e=UTF-8
...but
https://www.google.com/search?&q=mandarin+language
...gets a result that's legible except for a few ?-boxes for some Chinese characters. But sometimes hacking off the "extraneous" portion of the search url doesn't improve the output, especially when I search through the searchbar. Same happened when I google other languages (Hindi, Macedonian) or even "Verizon Wireless". In gmail - everything in the inbox (subjects, text previews) looks fine, but when I open an email or try to write one, it's all ?-boxes.Given the uninterrupted functionality of other pre-existing browsers (S, F, C) and the mixed results with freshly downloaded browsers (GX, V, B ), does an Opera re-install make sense?
Would a full re-install preserve my currently open tabs? Since I have an enormous number of tabs open and it is more important for me to retain those tabs rather than fix the text (those tabs represent all of my current projects – I can at least copy their URLs to a functioning browser to continue working from where I left off), I am reluctant to do anything that would put them at risk.
Thanks again.
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noslay last edited by noslay
@sgunhouse said in Broken Text Encoding After Routine OS Update:
@noslay chrome://settings/fonts, or just go to Settings and type font in the search box. then click Customize fonts.
I tried as you suggested, changing the fonts from their previous selection of "Custom" (why they were "custom" I don't know, as I never changed them) to Times New Roman and Arial. There was zero improvement.
In Chrome, the fonts are also "Custom" and Chrome works just fine.
It would seem this problem requires a different line of inquiry...
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noslay last edited by
Ultimately a total reset of Font Book appears to have corrected the issue.
Thanks to both of you for your assistance.
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burnout426 Volunteer last edited by
@noslay said in Broken Text Encoding After Routine OS Update:
Ultimately a total reset of Font Book appears to have corrected the issue.
Awesome!
Just in case others run into this, what are the steps to reset Font Book?
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noslay last edited by
Apple's official instructions are here:
https://support.apple.com/guide/font-book/restore-fonts-that-came-with-your-mac-fb34862/mac
"In the Font Book app on your Mac, choose Font Book > Settings.
Click Advanced, then click Reset Fonts.
Click Proceed to confirm, and enter your password if asked (or use Touch ID).
Any fonts you’ve installed are placed in /Library/Fonts (Removed) or in ~/Library/Fonts (Removed). To install those fonts again, just reinstall them."
