Special characters (accents) stopped displaying correctly
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I am using the Abel font as part of the Oxygen theme for my website. Since about a week ago, some special characters (accents for Czech language, e.g. “š, č, ř, ž”) are no more being displayed correctly. It worked fine before and I have made no changes to my website. Any suggestions what the problem might be?
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Hey Tomas,
I took a look at the Abel font in Google Fonts, and it doesn’t seem to support the characters you mention. You can have a look here:
https://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Abel
Just to confirm, previously, those characters were being displayed correctly, but now they are not. Is that correct?
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Hi Jeremy,
Thanks for your response. This sounds like a reasonable explanation, however, I have set up my website more than a year ago and until last week these characters were really displayed correctly.
You can see the problem, for example in my first name, which should be “Tomáš” but the “s” with the accent is now displayed in some other font: http://tomasvaclavik.wordpress.com/
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Hey Tomáš,
This is indeed happening because the Abel font does not contain that character. As a result, the theme is reverting to the default backup font that is San Serif, which looks different in your site title. Unfortunately, since Able is the default font in the Oxygen theme, the only way to correct this would either be to switch themes or use a custom font, which would require the Custom Design upgrade shown here:
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