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A related problem and solution
Authored by: TimBonnici on Mar 29, '06 01:45:16PM

This is not going to be a bug that affects a great number of users but in the context of this thread I think it's worth mentioning. I had problems for ages with certain symbols showing up as little key caps symbols instead of what they were meant to be when browsing the web. The most notable offender in this regard was the euro symbol. I tried deleting font caches, reinstalling fonts, and all the sort of things that are being suggested here.

What I didn't realise, until relatively recently, is that fonts, like other files, have versions too and I had been installing fonts from my master font library which I burnt onto a CD ages ago. The thing was that my "master" CD had old versions of Georgia and Verdana and those were the fonts that I'd opted to use as my default serif and sans serif fonts. After a bit of hunting around on the web I found newer versions and these new versions had the glyphs for the euro symbol. Problem solved!

Along the way, I discovered that the key caps symbols (they look like a capital A inside a square) a provided by LastResort.dfont, which is the font that OS X uses when a font doesn't contain the glyph that it's being asked to display.

Hope this saves someone else the trouble that I went through.



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