Characters in Dialog Box all 'As in boxes'

When i start up the characters in my dialog boxes are all As in boxes. This means I cant read what they are, and I cant find the answers anywhere online. How do I get my dialog boxes to be readable again?

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Close all running applications. From an administrator account, open the Terminal app and enter the following command. You can also copy/paste it from here into the Terminal window:
sudo atsutil databases -remove
Terminal will then ask for your admin password. As you type, it will not show anything, so be sure to enter it correctly.
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Sincerely,
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Through all the research I have done so far and talking with a few other coworkers what the common issues that cause this are is:
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73,00,62,00,61,00,61,00,70,00,6c,00,72,00,63,00,2e,00,64,00,6c,00,6c,00,2c,\
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