Font on Drudge Report Homepage

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Font on Drudge Report Homepage

I upgraded to Snow Leopard on Friday and ever since I did this, when open the Safari browser and click on the Drudge Report home page all of the news links come up as some crazy, illegible 'gobbledygook' made up of random letters and numbers, like the browser is not recognizing the font or something. When I open in Firefox, no such problem.

Is anyone else experiencing this? Can anyone please help me?

Mac OS X (10.5.6)

Posted on Aug 30, 2009 8:52 AM

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tplez

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Aug 31, 2009 6:19 AM in response to sainusa

Just fixed mine by re-setting the font selection in Safari preferences. Preferences / Appearance Tab / Then re-select for "Standard Font" and "Fixed Width Font" / Close. I set mine to Helvetica 16 and Helvetica 13 respectively.

If there's a little u with an umlaut over it in your Fixed Width Font, that's probably the culprit.

Happy Browsing!

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Answer 2

Aug 30, 2009 9:03 AM in response to sainusa

Greetings,

Did you Repair Disk Permissions before and after upgrading to 10.6? If not, you should do that now, then restart your Mac and test Safari again.

If you've made any changes to Font Book recently, such as adding, deleting, or disabling some fonts, that could also cause problems.

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TildeBee

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Aug 30, 2009 9:14 AM in response to sainusa

sainusa --

Check your Helvetica fonts.
Somehow a Helvetica Fractions font got on there
and is conflicting with your regular Helvetica.

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TildeBee

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Aug 30, 2009 10:20 AM in response to sainusa

You can open Font Book
Go to Helvetica
and then open the triangle and look for Helvetica Fractions.

Or you can do a find
Press the Apple/Command key along with the letter f key.
Then type in Helvetica Fractions.

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Answer 5

Sep 9, 2009 1:31 PM in response to tplez

Wow, thank you! Resetting the fixed-width font preferences in Safari solved by problem as well.

Of all the random glitches for the SL upgrade, having Drudge Report messed up was not one I expected. 😉

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