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Firefox 98.0 (Snap version) does not support Chinese characters. For reference, https://hk.yahoo.com/ is render as

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This should be fixable by changing the default font in "Preferences". Unfortunately, no font that support Chinese characters is listed in Settings > Language and Appearance > Font and Colours > Default Font:

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I believe the source of the problem is Snap not be able to access the fonts available in the system. How can I fix this?

Raniere Silva
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This is odd. Using the link that you've provided, I'm able to see what appears to be Chinese text with the Snap version of Firefox 98.0.1:

Firefox Snap

I've looked at my language settings and, while I do have the fonts for English and Japanese, I do not have any for Chinese. The page does load properly, though.

Digging deeper, if you click on the "Advanced" button in the "Language and Appearance" section of the Firefox settings, you'll see the ability to specify specific fonts for different character sets:

Latin Fonts

Changing the "Fonts for" option to "Simplified Chinese" or "Traditional Chinese (Hong Kong)" may show the same settings as is set for Latin. However, you may see other options that work better for you.

Alternatively, you could uninstall the Firefox snap from your system, then re-install. There is no --reinstall option like with apt, unfortunately.

Edit:

Another option comes from this answer where the fonts-wqy-zenhei font package was installed:

sudo apt install fonts-wqy-zenhei

This may resolve the issue

matigo
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  • Thanks for the answer. Months ago, when I did apt install firefox it installed the snap version. When I run apt install firefox it installed the native version (I also installed firefox-locale-zh-hans and firefox-locale-zh-hant). Things are working as expected now in both native Firefox and snap one. – Raniere Silva Mar 18 '22 at 01:51