Google Cyrillic?

Question

Google

Why can the main page of Google show such squiggles instead of Cyrillic? Ubuntu 10.10, Firefox 3.6, Russian is selected in the Google settings.

Answer 1

and exactly Russian is worth it? I somehow lost myself on the first in the list, Afrikaans, it seems that there were very similar letters.

Answer 2

It's the language of pirates, obviously.

Answer 3

www.omniglot.com/writing/somali.htm

Answer 4

This phenomenon has nothing to do with pirates. This is Cherokee (try, for example, to look for these symbols).
I got it a few months ago. The key here is the Ubuntu+Firefox bundle. What exactly was the matter, it was not possible to find out then. There are a couple of relevant topics - on the Ubuntuforums and on the Mozilla support . The first one in post #7 has links to a couple of bug reports - perhaps this is due to incorrect handling (message) of Firefox's language settings.