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"Allow pages to choose their own fonts, and not my selection above" only shows squares with numbers in them for all english characters

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Hills
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When ever I select this option firefox only shows characters that appear when you do not have foreign fonts installed, except for English. The characters are squares with numbers in them at the bottom of the character.

When ever I select this option firefox only shows characters that appear when you do not have foreign fonts installed, except for English. The characters are squares with numbers in them at the bottom of the character.

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Try to set the Boolean pref gfx.font_rendering.directwrite.use_gdi_table_loading to false on the about:config page.

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cor-el
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Try to set the Boolean pref gfx.font_rendering.directwrite.use_gdi_table_loading to false on the about:config page.

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Hills
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Fixed it...thanks!