Safari fonts display

On some, not all, websites the font displays as something like a cyrillic type. An example is Macworld-not the home page but any other pages, just the body text, not the headlines
I've made all my default fonts in safari preferences to be helvetica.
I just tried deleting the com.apple.safari.plist file from the library. No change. I know there's a setting somewhere that I need to change but I don't know where.

on some, not all, websites the font displays as something like a cyrillic type.
That means you probably have an incompatible non-Unicode cyrillic font on your machine, probably with a common name like Helvetica or Times, with a CYR or SLA in the name, most likely located in Home/Library/Fonts. Find it and dump it. Also make sure you dump Times Phonetic and Helvetica Fractions if you have them.

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