Help with illustrator TYPE TOOL ,text is bugged

okay so when i use the type tool in illustrator it gives me wierd kind of thing,icant figure out wheather its the text characters mixed up or something else, howevver when i use 0.25pt stroke i can see the characters as u can see in the screenshot.

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function(){return A.apply(null,[this].concat($A(arguments)))}
why won't my reflect tool operate properly.....we have just spent another hour trying to sort it out.
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Have you looked at the instructions? If not, do you not think that spending over an hour while typing posts in an online forum, waiting for answers (which are as often incorrect as correct) for every little question you may have about Illustrator is a much less time-efficient way to learn the program than reading the provided documentation?
function(){return A.apply(null,[this].concat($A(arguments)))}
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Ok i've figured it all out
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