Yep - You have messed up your helvetica neue font. (or one of the helvetica family - sound familiar?)
if you've been doing some printing or font work recently then undo whatever you were doing... if not then using fontbook, or even better the utility onyx do a scan and rebuild of your font libraray and you should be good again Toby On 1 May 2014 16:17, Jason Davies <[email protected]> wrote: > looks like an encoding issue. > > what exactly do you mean 'replacing'? Spontaneously? when you open a file > for the first time? always from the same person or not? opening with which > app? (you get the idea...) > > > On 1 May 2014, at 16:11, Richard Wells wrote: > > I am suddenly getting a lot of odd characters replacing plain text. I >> noticed it first in emails, now in Text files. >> >> If I copy and paste them in another document they usually revert back to >> normal text. >> >> I am attaching some examples. >> >> Does anyone know what is going on here? >> >> >> >> >> >> >> Richard >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Sussex Mac User Group" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. >> >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> >> [email.jpg] >> >> [text file.jpg] >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. > > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
