Garbled text within InDesign CC panels

Since upgrading to Adobe Indesign CC I'm having an issue with the text becoming garbled in the panels when I click on it. Two examples are below. They appear normal until I click it, then the text shows up garbled. Any ideas?

It did not work. BUT when I click on the colors instead of the weird symbols & text, the text just disappears. When I click on a separation, it looks like an apostrophe only shows up.

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