[][][][] squares instead of characters? - Tech Support Forums

Southern Belle · December 22nd, 2001, 08:45 PM

heyal,

This is strange and I've seen it happen before but don't remember how it was fixed, seems as if something hasn't installed correctly.

Instead of seeing actual charachters. had seen it on the Help menu before and noticed on main screen pages or actually all of them on the demo game of Vyruz.

Can any one think of what this is / or suloution.

thank you,
happy holidays!!

SB

Wizzard~Of~Ozz · December 22nd, 2001, 08:47 PM

Usually this is a missing font. or language (on HTML anyway)

Southern Belle · December 22nd, 2001, 09:01 PM

heya wizzard!

thank you for the reply. i don't know which it would be. and is in help file files and on the games' menu options

and had alread tried to channels mode ...didn't work

thank you anyway, SB

AzKidd69 · December 22nd, 2001, 09:12 PM

Try changing to a different font for your desktop settings... there's like 3 or 4 of them that you can set.....

edwelly · December 24th, 2001, 02:03 PM

I agree that it is a font issue.
Let's say that I desogn my own font but I let out the characters such as @#$%^ (for example) they will show up as [][][][]
hope this help...
---edwelly

Southern Belle · December 28th, 2001, 11:05 AM

heyal,

I don't get it?
What font should i change it to? and I didn't make any new fonts so not sure what to do, can yal be more descriptive?

thanks,
sb

storm2k · December 28th, 2001, 11:08 AM

when someone makes a font, they have to make all the special symbols that go with it (like puncuation, numbers, special characters, etc.)... if they DON'T do this, windows will show those characters as little boxes since there is no font character to show in its place.

the best thing to do is run a normal font like arial or verdana, which have complete character sets.

Southern Belle · December 29th, 2001, 06:57 AM

heyal,

so i should put arial or veranda as the desktop, or message text font? i put the arial in for message box [or text] font but no difference.
which one please?

thank you again I appreciate the help,
southern belle

AzKidd69 · December 29th, 2001, 07:02 AM

I have Tahoma set for most of my desktop stuff and in IE Times New Roman set for web page font and Courier New for a plain text font...

HTH as far as which one out of the two you listed I dunno...

Southern Belle · December 31st, 2001, 06:01 AM

heyal,

i usually run Georgia fonts and i love my italics but have tried all or everything and ms kb said to run fontreg.exe and upload all again but that didn't work either somewhere someone posted to look for .chm file the help file but dayumit if pc locked and now can't find where it was didn't get to finish reading it.

thanks for help and i'll keep yal posted and please keep suggestions comming.

wonder if this causing java probs lots of times errors on page, opra never detects it ?

sb