Oh, bit late :-). Helvetia is part of apple's "in use by system things," fonts. and they use more and more of it across their interface and with each osx release and in ios too. Helvetia messing up was an educated guess, but I've seen this exact problem happen across bits of system, google, in web pages. And it stemmed from the fact that apple only licence out some sub-families of Helvetia I.e. Bold, italic, normal. But the REAL Helvetia has many many more than that and is quite expensive too.
Normally with other fonts you can switch them around, turn some on or off without any problem, but Helvetia and a few orhers are used by the system and screw up like this. To go even further down the rabbit hole, Helvetia normal from the full family isn't necessarily the same as Helvetia normal from Microsoft or apples family, and there is also a seedy underworld of pirate fonts that people make for free, which look very much like the font they say they are but in subtle ways won't space correctly in the same way as the real ones. Anyway it may not be Helvetia in this particular instance but there are only about 6 system fonts that are important like this. And there is a very good chance Richard has installed one or been doing some font/document work recently so this should jog his memory or help someone else out with the same problem in future... Especially when all your search results look like AAAAAAAAAA :-) On Friday, May 2, 2014, Jason Davies <[email protected]> wrote: > > How did you work out which font? Curious... > > Cheers, > > Jason > -- > > Sent from my iPhone > > > On 2 May 2014 at 10:22:02 BST, Toby Leighton <[email protected]> wrote: > > > 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. > > -- > 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> -- 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.
