Weird characters instead of letters in Safari

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Weird characters instead of letters in Safari

Just this morning I noticed that on some web pages I'm getting a weird symbol (capital A inside a box) showing up on in Safari instead of the words/letters. I'm using Safari 5.0.2. The only change I've made to my system is installing Microsoft Office 2011 yesterday. When I installed it I also chose to install the Microsoft Fonts and I'm wondering if that could be causing this issue. Below is a screenshot showing the exact same page loaded in Safari and Google Chrome. In Chrome it's displaying the words and in Safari it's displaying the symbol. Just wondering if anyone else has seen this or has any ideas.

Cheers!
Kirk

Macbook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.4)

Posted on Oct 27, 2010 9:02 AM

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Answer 1

Klaus1

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Oct 27, 2010 9:05 AM in response to MBP_Kirk

Yes, almost certainly a font problem.

Check for duplicates and remove them.

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MBP_Kirk Author

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Oct 27, 2010 9:28 AM in response to MBP_Kirk

Started looking around in my Font folders and found that I had a bunch of fonts in the "/Library/Fonts Disabled" folder. These were fonts that were duplicated in the "/Library/Fonts/Microsoft" folder. I moved the fronts from "/Library/Fonts Disabled" to "/Library/Fonts" and that seemed to fix it. Loaded several web pages that weren't working earlier and they all look fine now. I'm assuming that the Office 2011 installer disabled those fonts when it installed its own version.

Thanks for the reply!

Cheers!
Kirk

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