macbook pro 2019: text garbled on Google Chrome preferences and others I got this annoying garbled text after I had updated to MacOS Big Sur (Version 11.0.1).
I came across this problem immediately I got updated and opened my chrome.
it looks like this:
I also found something interesting. all the Latin letters changed into its next letter in order. and the space &quot; &quot;is changed into &quot;!&quot;. For example, the text over my avatar is &quot;Zpv!boe!Hpphmf&quot;, but the orginal is &quot;you and google&quot;. like &quot;you&quot; goes &quot;zpv&quot;, &quot;and&quot; becomes &quot;boe&quot; . I think that's wired!
I also got another thing that I wanted to mention. when I highlight the garbled text, it will get normal.

I tried to solve this tricky problem. First, I rebooted my Mac, but it didn't work. Then I changed UTF-8 which is a default encoding to ASCII, however, it was not helpful. Finally I called the Applecare, apple's technique support. She is very kind and she tell that I should wait for next Chrome's update. I think it will be OK although the garbled text makes me inconvenient.
Now I got crazy because I browsed a webpage and it's also garbled! I'm sure I can't ignore it any more.

My question is what can cause this and how can I solve it. Thank you advanced.
This is a font issue, causing characters to be shifted by one (somehow!).
Uninstall Roboto from your system.
Source:

https://www.reddit.com/r/chrome/comments/ki7qss/strange_text_showing_in_chrome_started_after/
https://support.google.com/chrome/thread/86605680?hl=en