Font (Italics) weirdness in Safari

This has been bugging me for years, and I've finally had enough:
When reading certain websites, text in Italics is in the correct font (and, indeed, italicized), but the +wrong character+. Everything is two ASCII digits up from where it should be. For instance, when italicized, "Apple" reads as "Crrog."
This happens to some italicized text in my Mail, as well. I do not have this same problem on my office Mac; as far as I can tell, all Safari preferences are the same on both computers.
I have run Font Book and resolved duplicates, I have checked every preference I know to check. Can someone please help me?
Much obliged!

I decided to go through Font Book and I disabled lots of fonts but not any system fonts. I have come across a couple though that I don't know how to fix them. One is Courier-there is a yellow triangle next to it and it says that there are multiple copies installed-it instructs me to us the Resolve Duplicates command to automatically deactivate the copies not in use. I tried that but nothing is resolved-they are still marked with the yellow triangle (there are 2 Regulars and 2 Bolds, one Oblique and one Bold Oblique-only of the Regular and Bold are marked with a yellow triangle). So it's Courier, Apple Symbols that are like this. Since Resolve Duplicates didn't resolve anything I tried Validate Font-that worked until I shut down the Font Book and then they were back with the yellow triangles. Also in the window for Validate Font there are many 'things' listed under Apple Symbols.ttf: 'cmap' table usablilty, 'hmtx' table usability, etc. all the way down to Duplicate Fonts which has a yellow circle with an exclamation point next to it-says minor problem, proceed with caution. Courier has 'things' listed too under Validate Font-Duplicate Fonts under Courier and under Courier Bold both. Not sure what all that means and I don't know how to fix those things-there is no check box next to them. Any ideas? I probably have succeeded in confusing you! Judy

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