Garbled text problems

Hope someone can help. I often have typeface problems in the from:, to: and attachment lines of emails sent to me that I can't read. Where the person's email address sould be there is a garbled length of characters like:
Ygpf{"Uggf or Fcxk"Vjqtpg.
The problem is not consistent but reoccurs. I have also had the same problem in my Safari web browser when visiting certain website. All the text is garbled illegible characters. I believe it is a typeface problem and am wondering if there are specific faces that need to be loaded all the time when using Mac Mail or Safari.
Thanks for help in advanced.

Where the
person's email address sould be there is a garbled
length of characters like:
Ygpf{"Uggf or Fcxk"Vjqtpg.
Try cleaning your font caches with FontFinagler.
I have
also had the same problem in my Safari web browser
when visiting certain website. All the text is
garbled illegible characters.
If the characters are really illegible (and not simply garbled as in the example above), make sure you get rid of the fonts Helvetica Fractions and Times Phonetic if you have them.

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