Flash Player 29 produces gibberish text on old flash files

Question

Hi, recently I have become aware that regular English text in old SWF files (those from 10+ years ago) has become a bunch of Chinese or Japanese text, instead of Latin characters. I am using Flash Player 29 PPAPI in Chrome.

Examples: https://rocketsnail.com/mancala/

Shockwave Flash Games: Snake - Bottom Text

Shockwave Flash Games: Digininja Level 1

Shockwave Flash Games: Flashteroids - All of the text should be in English

This happens in many old Flash games and animations, unfortunately.

When I open these files in Flash Player 8, for instance, the text is readable and appears normal.

Is there any way to mitigate this issue?

jeromiec83223024 · Answer

It would be helpful to know more about your computer and browser, and the language and region settings on your machine:

https://forums.adobe.com/thread/1195540

Flash Player supports a lot more languages that it did back in 2006. My sense is that something is weird about how we're mapping default system fonts on your machine. I'm pretty sure that this is local to your system, and that you may find that creating a new user account on the machine gets you back to a normal working state.

I'm not quite sure off the top of my head what's wrong, but I'm really curious about the details, and whether or not a clean user account makes a difference.

For what it's worth, these all work fine for me and show in English.

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