Mac OS X 10.6.7; Safari Version 5.0.5 (6533.21.1).
In the past few days, Safari has started rendering a number of webpages with significant errors. For example, the ramjet.com home page (and other pages on the site) are rendered with characters appearing as As within boxes, thus:
I've checked Preferences, and Java and JavaScript are enabled. Arial works fine. Has anyone else encountered this problem? Solutions?
24-in iMac 2.4 MHz, Mac OS X (10.6.2)
Hi verso2 --
Welcome!
Here's some advice from our Font Guru here, Kurt Lang:
A’s with boxes around them is always a sign of trouble with the main system
font, Lucida Grande.
Quick possible fix is to remove ALL font cache files from the system to see
if it's just bad cache data. For that, you need to use OnyX or other utility
which will remove both system and user cache files. A Safe Mode boot won't
work since it only removes cache data from the user account you do a safe
boot to.
If after that the problem returns, then Lucida Grande itself is damaged and
needs to be replaced.
Thanks, ~Bee and Kurt Lang,
It turns out that FontExplorer X Pro also has system/user font cache file management, so I was able to use it to delete the caches and, after a restart, things are back to normal.
Yay!
I'll be sure to tell Kurt!
So happy you're all sorted now.
Safari develops character rendering problems
