I think I fixed it - I changed the san serif font option from "Aerial
Black" to "Aerial Narrow", and everything came up OK. For some strange
reason, there was no "Aerial" font listed in the choice of available
fonts. So, maybe, as John suggested, I am missing that font. I cannot
imagine how that could have happened (I rarely use that system - it is
just a backup machine to use when the power goes out), and now I need to
figure out how to restore it.
Mike
Mike Sloane wrote:
I just took a closer look, and it looks like a bunch of arrows and other
"wingdings". Some text seems to be OK, while most of it is not. Very
weird.
Mike
John DeCarlo wrote:
It could be set up to use a font that isn't on your computer anymore.
On 7/21/07, Mike Sloane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I have several Windows XP Pro machines running FireFox, but one, an old
IBM Thinkpad, shows all the text as weird characters that don't look
like any known language. The options/tools show that it is set for US
English. The images and the rest of the HTML stuff are fine, just the
text. I have tried updates, but that doesn't change the presentation.
Every other application works fine, including IE. I guess my next step
is uninstalling and downloading FireFox from scratch, but I would
entertain other suggestions.
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