[jchan]

[whoops, i just posted a blank post, Safari 1.0.1 (v85.6) seemed to have issues with it, trying again on IE...]

Hello. Some websites and the text on some "Help Viewer" pages are displaying the font Times Phonetic Alternate. The cryptic looking characters are displayed in the below GIF.

How do I avoid this font being used? The website I see this font displayed this way is a medical journal, so I doubt if it's a dumb hoax. Should I trash the font?

I'm on OS 10.2.8

Thanks,

-j

[jchan]

Okay, I answered my own question. I read that Microsoft sent out corrupt versions of Arial and Times with OS X and Apple has not corrected it. There was an updated link from Microsoft, but it's now no longer being offered. SOOO... rather than jumping through hoops, I just placed all instances of Times Phonetic Alternate in it's own folder in the fonts folders so the system can't activate it and it magically displays the type in regular Times.

Tada!