Posted: Sat Aug 26, 2023 18:19 Post subject: Strange boxes in router help section
I am seeing these strange box characters in the help sections of the DD-WRT web interface.
How do I get rid of them?
I am using firefox 113.02
on xubuntu
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Posted: Sat Aug 26, 2023 18:47 Post subject:
I am seeing this on WRT3200ACM on 53360 alpha as well. Probably leftover "to-do" cruft from the webUI enhancements. Happens in pretty much all browsers in one form or another. _________________ "Life is but a fleeting moment, a vapor that vanishes quickly; All is vanity"
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I am seeing this on WRT3200ACM on 53360 alpha as well. Probably leftover "to-do" cruft from the webUI enhancements. Happens in pretty much all browsers in one form or another.
After trying many things I have come to believe your post is the answer
It's something legacy in the web UI. I will just have to try to live with it,
rather than try to obliterate it. I need a new sense of aesthetics
just went thru all the help stuff on the EA8500
NO weird stuff anywheres ...
there is a whole lot of stuff plus links in the 'Help' section since I looked last ...prolly 7 / 8 years ago
Oh wait, I just found out that I have unicode enabled for my operating system
but the font i use in FF does not have that unicode character
I need to give it a true unicode font
Just an update on what I have found out
It seems Firefox is not very clever at handling
certain font encodings such as utf-8, unicode, etc.
After spending too many hours messing around with it
I decided to use google-chrome. The DD-WRT interface all works well with chrome.
I had installed unicode fonts under ZSH, as part of its setup,
and my OS works fine with them
but Firefox appears to be very difficult about using
anything other than a few basic encodings.
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Posted: Mon Aug 28, 2023 10:12 Post subject:
moribund wrote:
Just an update on what I have found out
It seems Firefox is not very clever at handling
certain font encodings such as utf-8, unicode, etc.
....
but Firefox appears to be very difficult about using
anything other than a few basic encodings.
I am using Win 11 and Firefox 116.0.3 (64-bit) and the arrow in "/help/HSetup.asp" was displayed properly.
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Are you using some Firefox (userChrome.css) add-ons that alter fonts or character encoding? Try a Private Window which will ignore all add-ons and accept non-HTTPS links.
I tried all that. I am on xubuntu but running openbox as the window manager, instead of running XFWM4, I also have ZSH as the shell instead of BASH. It must have something to do with FF on my particular setup. I also have flatpak and snap disabled so I got the Firefox .deb from mozilla rather than any ubuntu related repo. Easy solution for me: use chrome or chromium. It works perfectly, no more box characters, just arrows.
It's got to be related to my setup rather than anything wrong in DD-WRT UI
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Posted: Wed Aug 30, 2023 5:30 Post subject:
moribund wrote:
I tried all that. I am on xubuntu but running openbox as the window manager, instead of running XFWM4, I also have ZSH as the shell instead of BASH. It must have something to do with FF on my particular setup. I also have flatpak and snap disabled so I got the Firefox .deb from mozilla rather than any ubuntu related repo. Easy solution for me: use chrome or chromium. It works perfectly, no more box characters, just arrows.
Did you install all language-related fonts? Unciode characters require corresponding font packs.
