Boxes instead of letters

[ihatecomputersdasdaad]

Why am I seeing boxes instead of letters? Is there a way to fix this?

 

[chabig]

That text is probably attempting to be displayed using a font that isn't installed on your machine.

 

[ihatecomputersdasdaad]

Yes but what font I have no idea, if someone exported fonts from newer version and uploaded somewhere I could do it I can't install them separately.

 

[Fastsavage]

Hi there,

Try this fix

How to Change the Default System Font in OS X El Capitan to Lucida Grande - OS X Daily

The Lucida Grande font is known for its crisp and obvious readability which makes it a great user interface font, and it rightfully served as the Mac OS X default system font for many years. Then along came Yosemite, where the Mac system font was changed to the generally unpopular Helvetica...

osxdaily.com

 

[ihatecomputersdasdaad]

I exported fonts from other computer to mine and that fixed some but all arabic and hebrew fonts are question marks in boxes, any ideas?

 

[Fastsavage]

It means the fonts are not there or corrupt.

 

[ihatecomputersdasdaad]

It means the fonts are not there or corrupt.

I downloaded new one from website and it's still the same.

 

[Fastsavage]

so if you go to your Font Book.app and search for Geeza - is it there?

Then if you double click on it do you get this?

 

[ihatecomputersdasdaad]

This is what I get

 

[Fastsavage]

Ok then your font is installed and should work !

 

[ihatecomputersdasdaad]

Thanks

 

[Fastsavage]

no worries