Chinese glyphs? Upload borken? 'Preview post' borken?

[fest3er]

Using Debian Jessie on desktop. Using Chrome bowser, language is set to English (US). First, trying to attach this PNG:

• clicked "Add Files"
• Selected my pic
• Clicked "Insert Inline" or "Done"
• Got dialog: "www.turbodieselregister.com says undefined"

Got the pic attached using drag-n-drop.Second, look at the pic. In some of the buttons, there are Chinese glyphs instead of the expected images. For the longest time (years) only Firefox did this. Now FF and chrome/chromium do it.I tried deleting the FF and chrome caches to no avail. I turned off the squid cache on my perimeter firewall to no avail. I honestly have *no* idea where this Chinese stuff is coming from. And I really don't know where to begin to look.Now, this isn't exactly a TDR problem; it only makes TDR look, mmm, odd. I was just wondering if you might have *any* clue what causes this. Or where I might look to find the problem.Third, there should be multiple paragraphs here. But the final paragraphs are combined into one after I click 'preview post'. (Look for the sentence-ending periods with no following space; there should be paragraph breaks after those periods. At least the paragraphs don't appear in the preview window. They may appear in the final post window; I'll restore them in the edit and see what happens.

 

[promisedland]

Hmmm, where ever you see 'Chinese', i just see a box on my screen....

Drop the chop sticks, now!

 

[deathbysnoosnoo]

In the address bar there is a notification next to the bookmark. What is that?

If you go into settings -> languages what languages do you have in there? Are you using a pre-packaged Chrome build or did you build it from source?

 

[deathbysnoosnoo]

Also check tools (might say more tools) - > encoding. What is it set to?

 

[fest3er]

Here's snippet from the HTML:

[URL="https://www.turbodieselregister.com/usercp.php"][I][/I]Settings[/URL]

In this case, that Chinese glyph is a multi-octet UTF-8 character. Where does it come from? Is the bowser doing it? Is it a flaw in web-kit? Is there a flaw in one of the packages vBulletin uses? Did someone slip some UTF-16 in somewhere? Are the fonts I use on Debian/Linux faulty or outdated?

 

[fest3er]

Sigh. They just returned to normal after I changed fonts. On both chrome and ff. So I guess it must be my system. Probably a font is not loaded correctly (during startup or at all) or it is corrupted (on disk or in memory). So forget the Chinese hieroglyphics.That leaves the first problem (adding pics) and the third problem (lost newlines) where this sentence should be in its own paragraph.

 

[fest3er]

Oh, the Chinese could've come from a 'fallback' font, where if the main font doesn't have the desired chars, one of the others (backup, secondary standby, etc.) will have them. And it just happens that this particular font doesn't have the right glyphs.