JavaFX WebView font issue on Mac

Question

Some sites show gibberish characters instead of the correct text. It only happens on Macs.

For example with GMapsFX:

Online site:

Might be related to OS X 10.11 or 10.12. I tested it with Java 1.8.0_121.

Is there any fix or workaround for this issue?

Answer 1

The error, in my case, was not related to system font. I solved the problem by setting the user agent for the web engine. Here is the string I used (Firefox on Windows x64):

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT x.y; Win64; x64; rv:10.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/10.0

Answer 2

please load all font in system when java application launched. but is not best answer...sorry

List<String> fontFamilies = Font.getFamilies();
for (String fontFamily: fontFamilies) {
   Font.font(fontFamily);
}