My goal was to design a simple website, with a custom font (that isn't available on Google Fonts). I used FontSquirrel's generator for webfonts as a supplement to manually-linked fonts. What was expected was for the src for the WOFF and WOFF2 files to be just simple links to the files. What happened was the generator added this garbage data (which was taken on pastebin as spam and would probably be taken as spam here as well) for every WOFF and WOFF2 file. This threw me off.
As I already stated, I manually linked the files and it did not work, however this may be just a side effect of me not knowing how webfonts work. I tried to look up about this on the internet and found irrelevant results.
I used FontSquirrel to generate the files, and these are the settings I used. The extra font filetypes are for debugging this problem (it only happens to WOFF as I found out).
Am I truly not linking WOFF files properly? Is WOFF supposed to be linked like this? Is the generator supposed to insert garbage data into the WOFF srcs?
edit 1: I only figured out now (after someone pointed it out) that this "garbage data" may just be simply raw font data. I still don't know, however, why this happens, if this is a bug and I can just use the simple src attribute pointing to the file, or is this intentional?