Alien5.ttf - The Alien League Font problem

Just a note:
After adding this font to user library, OSX starts using it as a default for menus in Safari and several other apps.
Weird, but true.

It's a very common problem with free fonts. Windows users must have some sort of favorite free font editor to see this so often. What I mean by that is whatever editor this is, it must not show all of the internal names you need to set.
People start with a font that's already finished (commonly Arial), clear out the characters and put new ones in. You then need to update the font names. Here's what you ran into.
Note the incorrect Full Name. I can only guess the editor being used doesn't show this field since this happens to often.
If you really like this font, a fixed version has been replacing the old one on many sites. Even though it has the same name of ALIEN5.TTF, the internal names are correct. It was actually kind of difficult to find one that was still bad. Here's a good one.

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