Okay, so as was determined in this thread, I had loaded some fonts that my system didn't like. I deleted them (I thought), but I'm still having problems:<br><br><br><br><br><br>So what gives? I've run Font Cache Cleaner, to no avail. I deleted all the fonts from my user folder. I don't know what else to try. the font folders in the system library seem to be okay.<br><br>Is there a way I can just restore the condition of my fonts to sort of a "virgin" state? Without doing an archive and install?<br><br>

Are you running MS Office? ...and perhaps Suitcase?<br><br>

OS X gets/uses fonts from many locations, its one of the most confusing things in OS X<br><br>fonts from OS 9's system folder<br>fonts from from the main Library folder<br>font from your home folder Library<br><br>then font book?<br>suitcase?<br><br><br>

From Kurt Lang at Apple discussions<br><br><blockquote><font size=1>In reply to:</font><hr><p>Users>your_user_name>Library>Fonts<br>Library>Fonts<br>Network>Library>Fonts<br>System>Library>Fonts<br>System Folder>Fonts (the OS 9 Fonts folder)<br><br><br> (Source: Apple Knowledge Base article 106417). <p><hr></blockquote><p>What i did was dump the fonts into Font Book. I think that I then selected to let all users have access to the fonts. I guess I should have just put them into my fonts folder.<br><br>Hmm, I'm going to log into a different account and see if I still have the issue.<br><br>

Hmm, nope, it seems to only be with my account. Great.<br><br>

Adobe also creates font folders for a few of their apps (InDesign, Acrobat, Distiller), perhaps it's one of those.<br><br>However, if you got that text from an email or the internet, or a Windows-saved RTF file, many times it garbles apostrophes, commas and other punctuation.<br><br>

<blockquote><font size=1>In reply to:</font><hr><p>However, if you got that text from an email or the internet, or a Windows-saved RTF file, many times it garbles apostrophes, commas and other punctuation.<p><hr></blockquote><p>You mean the text that I posted pictures of? Nope, those examples are from right here at MacMinute. I was surfing using Safari... haven't tried any of my other browsers yet.<br><br>And it seems only to show up in Safari (i.e. not Mail or AppleWorks). Maybe when I go home I'll take a look and see if I can't find a fonts folder just for Safari. It sure didn't seem to be anything with the preferences.<br><br>Can I just delete the Safari.plist -- or whatever it's called -- file like I would have done in OS 9?<br><br>

<blockquote><font size=1>In reply to:</font><hr><p>an I just delete the Safari.plist -- or whatever it's called -- file like I would have done in OS 9?<p><hr></blockquote><p><br>That did it. Deleting [color:blue]com.apple.Safari.plist</font color=blue> caused my fonts to go back to normal.<br><br>Whew.<br><br>You can all go back about your business now.<br><br>