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For others without that specific font or what have you: "Unicode Text Converter"

On my windows box with chrome all i see are empty boxes.

Use IE (wow, don't say that often) it has much better typography support, if you are on a high DPI display, chrome just looks awful.

> if you are on a high DPI display, chrome just looks awful

I'm fairly sure this is no longer the case. Chrome is high-DPI aware on Windows now, and it uses DirectWrite for font rendering, the same as IE. It just can't display these characters for some reason.

I think he does not only mean the font rendering, but the UI itself.

Anyway, DirectWrite was horrible at high DPI, if I remember correctly.

Nope, the UI got an update too. It renders at high-DPI on Windows. Chrome on a high-DPI machine looks exactly the same as on a low-DPI machine, except sharper. It used to be plagued with issues, but I'm fairly sure they're all gone now. DirectWrite isn't perfect. It still has weird hinting and kerning at high-DPI with some fonts, but it's better than GDI.

I find Chrome better than IE, actually. IE ignores my DPI settings and scales pages to 250%, so everything looks too large. Chrome renders correctly at 200%.

That's interesting. These comments make a lot more sense in IE11.

𝒃𝒆𝒔𝒕 𝒗𝒊𝒆𝒘𝒆𝒅 𝒊𝒏 𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒏𝒆𝒕 𝒆𝒙𝒑𝒍𝒐𝒓𝒆𝒓 11

This reminds me of the 1990s. haha

I had the same problem - this page has some fonts you can download, which fixed the problem for me (Windows 7, Chrome 38)

http://gschoppe.com/fixing-unicode-support-in-google-chrome/

Thanks I was having the same issue on Windows 7 Chromium v39

Here too - except in the title (tab) - I can see the text.

Same here. I wonder why Chrome on Windows doesn't work.

Fortunately I'd seen this story on my Ubuntu box before leaving home, so I wasn't totally out of the loop.

On my Fedora box with Chrome negative circled, squared and negative squared don't show up but everything else does. Firefox and Konqueror are the same so I imagine it is a font issue.

I thought it was emoticons at first. Now I can see the title.

Works fine on chrome for mac, doesn't work on chrome for windows.

What's weird for me is that Chrome 38 on Win 8.1 is showing the title in the tab but is just boxes on the actual page.

Same with Chrome and Opera on Android 5.0

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