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Sporadic gibberish in multiple applications
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Junior Member
Join Date: Feb 2003
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Hello,
I'm suddenly having a strange phenomenon occur. In seemingly random applications, at random times, the regular text is being scrambled. The wrong characters appear so that the effect is like reading some sort of gibberish.
If I copy and paste the text it appears to be fine, which is even more confusing.
So far I've noticed this to happen on some pages in Safari and now in an email from my Mail program.
Has anyone experienced this? It's a little offputting.
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Mac Enthusiast
Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: Canada, Planet Earth
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Look at #6
Font Troubleshooting
http://homepage.mac.com/juhaotava/fo...s/panther.html
Font Cache Cleaner
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/22795
If you're having problems on your system with text appearing "garbled", it could be caused by corrupt font cache files. What appears to be happening is that incorrect or corrupted encoding vector information is being used when mapping the character codes as input by your keyboard to the glyphs they represent in the problematic font. You can run Font Cache Cleaner to purge these cache files in an attempt to restore normal behavior. If you use Font Cache Cleaner but the problem remains, then it could be caused by an underlying OS X font-handling bug, by a font conflict, or by a corrupt or less-than-ideal-quality font. Try removing fonts to isolate the problematic fonts that are causing this behavior.
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Tiger 10.4.8
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Makes sense since I've been copying many fonts over from my old machine, although I had never had any problems on that one.
I'll give the cache clearer a whirl later today. Thanks for the tip!
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Originally posted by konakazi:
Makes sense since I've been copying many fonts over from my old machine, although I had never had any problems on that one.
I'll give the cache clearer a whirl later today. Thanks for the tip!
if you are using Suitcase, you might also want to disable its automatic activation settings, sometimes other versions of Helvetica can get activated, and then they seem to conflict in some weird way.
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Junior Member
Join Date: Feb 2003
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That was EXACTLY the problem!
I deactivated the Helvitica fonts I had activated in Font Book and BOO YA, the disrupted items seem to be fine.
Thanks so much! I love this board at times like this! 
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