Weird Characters in Mail

[tech324]

I have Mac OS 10.6.7 and in my mail program certain emails show up with weird characters. They look like squares with A's in them. Its not in every email. The email renders fine on my ipod touch. Anyone else experience this?

 

[Dr Kevorkian94]

usually it means it a smily like but animated like it is on this site not in just letters and characters. Mail wont render it so it comes up as a square, but on an iphone it should work, t does with mine at least.

 

[tech324]

I don't think its an animated character. Some of my emails have the squares with As taking up the whole email. I get emails from like Ebay and the whole message is all squares with As in them. I can even tell when it gets to a link because the squares change to blue.

 

[Knoodles]

Most likely your fonts are mucked up. Open Font Book in your Applications folder. Highlight all fonts on the right side. From the File Menu select Validate fonts. After validation and deletion/deactivation of problem fonts, go to the Edit Menu and select Resolve Duplicates.

 

[tech324]

Most likely your fonts are mucked up. Open Font Book in your Applications folder. Highlight all fonts on the right side. From the File Menu select Validate fonts. After validation and deletion/deactivation of problem fonts, go to the Edit Menu and select Resolve Duplicates.

Knoodles: THANK YOU!!!! That seemed to work.

 

[Knoodles]

Glad to hear that! To your knowledge did you install any new fonts recently that would have caused this to just start happening? Did the validation or resolve duplicates find any baddies?