Strange characters

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  1. Haarball, Sep 18, 2006

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    I've had my Macbook for about 2 weeks, and in the last few days I've gotten some weird characters in one of my widgets and Adium. See the attached images. Anbyone experienced this and/or know what's causing it?
     

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  2. galstaph, Sep 18, 2006

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    not sure what is causing it, have you repaired your permissions lately? it may help
     
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  3. Mitthrawnuruodo, Sep 18, 2006

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    Open Font Book to resolve duplicates and validate your fonts.
     
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  4. aricher, Sep 18, 2006

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    It's either font book duplicate fonts or a 3rd party font program. I get funky characters in widgets, safari and MS Entourage every time I have Suitcase Fusion running.
     
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  5. Haarball, Sep 18, 2006

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    Yeah, I've just installed loads of fonts. Do I have to search through it manually for duplicates?
     
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  6. Mitthrawnuruodo, Sep 18, 2006

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    No, Font Book, which is mentioned a couple of times earlier, does this automatically when you ask it to...
     
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  7. emw, Sep 18, 2006

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    I was getting odd characters in iChat before, but I just put them on my Ignore list.

    Anyway, I agree that the new fonts are likely the issue and that Font Book should resolve it for you.
     
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  8. Haarball, Sep 18, 2006

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    Cheers, lads. Hope this sorts it.
     
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  9. Haarball, Sep 19, 2006

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    I had to delete the fonts to fix the problem, but I deleted too many! Now I have the wrong fonts everywhere, including this website.

    Is there a way of re-installing the original fonts?
     
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