Comments on: Google Calendar Outage

By: Joseph Lancaster

Joseph Lancaster — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 21:07:40 +0000

Right? That has to be the worst page Google has ever made!

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 22:10:47 +0000

Since I have all those fonts installed I was quite confused as to what his problem was till I took a good look at the screenshot :(

By: Boyd

Boyd — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 18:33:21 +0000

In short, get more fonts.

Well, since you're not going to be able to read it either way, there's not much reason to bother getting more fonts.

By: Jeffrey W. Baker

Jeffrey W. Baker — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 17:41:47 +0000

Heh, those aren't machine codes. The reason it looks wrong is your own computer. Google is sending the error message in dozens of languages, using the UTF-8 Unicode encoding. Your computer recognized the encoding, but you don't have the fonts required to display Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese, etc. Those little boxes have a four-digital hexademical number in them which represents the Unicode code point of the character your computer is supposed to display. For instance the code point 1234 is the "Ethiopic Syllable See" but if you don't have a font that can show the Ethiopic language, your computer will just display a rectangle with the numbers "1234" inside. In short, get more fonts. You can download the very complete Deja Vu Sans font at dejavu-fonts.org.

By: Eric Florack

Eric Florack — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 16:10:28 +0000

(grump)

As a guess what you're seeing is what the web server is sending up. Looks, based on the etext like the database server... likely a whole different box... is the problem.