Firefox prints characters instead of text.

Trying to print from gmail, the text comes out in characters and blocks. If I use print preview and then print, it prints correctly. I have tried diabling all addons and that did not work. Prints correctly in IE.
== This happened ==
Every time Firefox opened
== 6/10/10

Is the only way to fix that to get rid of Times
Phonetic?
Yes, or deactivate it. Times Phonetic like Helvetica Fractions is intended for use in non-unicode systems like OS 9 and confuses OS X Cocoa apps.
For Unicode fonts with the same symbols you can check
http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&id=IPAhome

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