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Hello, SpiderDawn! Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions to this free encyclopedia. If you decide that you need help, check out Getting Help below, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by clicking or using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your username and the date. Finally, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field. Below are some useful links to facilitate your involvement. Happy editing! -- Levine2112 discuss 18:27, 2 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
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  • I haven't been able to find out what font I need to display everything in Wikipedia properly.
    • I see that there are many fonts available when I search, but
    • so far I have been unable to find a page to help me understand why my browser won't display certain text.
  • An example: When I navigate to the following page: (I_Know)_I'm_Losing_You
    • on the right side of the page are some info boxes. At the top of each info box is a line that displays the title of the song, and perhaps the title is surrounded by quotes or something--I can't tell because what I see are three garbled characters (in sequence: an accented letter 'a', a square, another square) “.


Thank you in advance for any help with this. SpiderDawn (talk) 01:47, 21 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

  • Huh. The quotes render propetly for me. Could you ask at the help desk perhaps? Ten Pound Hammer and his otters • (Broken clamshellsOtter chirpsHELP) 01:51, 21 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • Further information: Browsers
    • Opera is my browser of choice (using v.9.52)
    • When I use Firefox on the same computer, I can see all the text okay.
  • I found a solution to my problem after fiddling around with some menu items I hadn't considered previously.
    • Open Wikipedia page with garbled type.
    • In Opera, navigate to View/Encoding/Automatic Selection.
    • The page automatically reloaded, displaying the type correctly.

SpiderDawn (talk) 01:59, 21 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]