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Forum: General Discussion: Japanese text is garbled in FixProxy

Joshua
2025/01/15 14:28
Hello,
I am using FixProxy with Firefox. It works well for most websites, but Japanese text is always garbled. FixBrowser can display Japanese text correctly, but I prefer to use FixProxy with Firefox.

Is there a way to fix the Japanese text issue in FixProxy?

Thank you for your help!
jezek2
2025/01/15 14:54
Yes, you can disable it by removing the content of line 101 containing:

sanitize_unicode(doc);

in proxy/html/whitelist.fix. You can then either recompile the code or you can put the binaries into the sources and run it with a -t parameter so it loads the *.fix files from the disk.

This will be fixed (disabled) in the next release and hopefully improved in the future and be configurable.

Originally the intent was to proactively prevent potential security issues with Unicode handling in the (possibly outdated) web browsers but it needs more work and it makes it unusable for non-western scripts, math symbols etc.
Joshua
2025/01/15 15:13
Thank you so much! I followed your instructions, and it worked perfectly. I really appreciate the great work you’ve done, and I’m grateful for your help!


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