Strange characters in the User Interface

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Hi,

It’s my first topic in this forum.

After install JabRef 5.3 on my MAC 10.13.6 and the UI show the text with strange characters.

Attached to this text, a capture of the IU with the problem.

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Thanks for your help.

Pablo

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Could you show us your set preferences under Options>preferences>general and also maybe under library>library properties?

3

Hi,

Please check your encoding settings in the Preferences, and maybe you need to install and try out a different font https://docs.jabref.org/faq/osx#q-some-characters-are-not-displayed-in-the-main-table-math-characters-or-some-upper-cased-letter

I remember that earlier MacOS versions had problem with this,

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Hi,

Here the preferences/general tab. As you can see, it’s the characters of the application, not these of the bibtex files.

Thanks

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Mhm are you using the UTF(4) encoding intentionally? I think UTF8 is the standard nowadays for most applications. I would try that.

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@Pablo1 It’s been some time, but I was searching for another issue and stumbled across this thread java - Why JavaFX application and scene builder is showing garbled text? - Stack Overflow

The problem might be coming from the Font Segoe UI font which is damaged or corrupted.
You could try to reinstall that font