Very weird font problem

I have a very weird and annoying font problem with the left menu bar of iTunes 8.2(23)
Some but not all menu items are displayed like a mix of Hebrew and unprintable caracters.
But once the menu item is selected, the font is back to normal !
The weired thing is that TV Series and Shopping cart menu items are displayed (in French, because the interface is in French) as expected.
I don't know if it is related, but I have Russian-PC keyboard installed too, Adobe CS4 (which installed Adobe fonts) and my OS interface is in French.

How did you go about finding this Lucida Grande.ttf? I did a search and didn't find it. I have the same weird font thing in itunes. I recently installed a whack of fonts from another computer. Any help would be appreciated.

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Very weird font problem which appeared suddenly

I have no idea how to describe the problem as I am no native speaker. The following screenshot shows the problem, it has yet only occured within Firefox:
http://i.imgur.com/zNegO.png
The circled slash should be either fi, fl, or ff (like I have indicated)... as I am typing these examples they also appear as these things, they are not exactly the same btw (also I hope they are coming out regulary for you, otherwise reference the screenshot).
What caused this and how can i fix (there it is again, when typing f-i-x) it? Thank you.

nae64 wrote:Are we all using German locales, or is it a more general problem with fonts?
I'm using mostly Polish locale:
[karol@black ~]$ locale
LANG=pl_PL.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="pl_PL.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="pl_PL.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="pl_PL.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="pl_PL.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="pl_PL.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES=C
LC_PAPER="pl_PL.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="pl_PL.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="pl_PL.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="pl_PL.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="pl_PL.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="pl_PL.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=
If I copied those words and pasted them to vim or ever the firefox searchbox - they appeared OK. The problem was only with rendering on the webpage.

HELP ME! My computer is posessed! Very weird power problem!!!!

I am using an iMac - first generation of intel-based iMacs - and I have a very weird powering-on and powering-off problem.
When I plug my iMac into the wall socket, it starts up on it's own. When I shut it down (using BOTH the apple menu OR the power button), it starts itself right back up. When I put it to sleep, it goes to sleep and then wakes up immediately. It does restart normally, though, so it seems that my iMac simply has a problem with being OFF!
Help meh! I'd like to save a trip to the Apple Store if I can help it!

Hello DrackerDesign
Welcome to Apple Discussions
{quote:}I am using an iMac - first generation of intel-based iMacs - and I have a very weird powering-on and powering-off problem.{quote}
Reset the SMC, as per > http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3964
+1. Shut down the computer.+
+2. Unplug the computer's power cord.+
+3. Press and hold the power button for 5 seconds.+
+4. Release the power button.+
+5. Attach the computers power cable.+
+6. Press the power button to turn on the computer.+
{quote:}When I plug my iMac into the wall socket, it starts up on it's own.{quote}
It will do that if the box *☐ Start automatically after a power failure* on the Energy Saver preference panel is checked.
{quote:}When I shut it down (using BOTH the apple menu OR the power button), it starts itself right back up. When I put it to sleep, it goes to sleep and then wakes up immediately. It does restart normally, though, so it seems that my iMac simply has a problem with being OFF!{quote}
If the SMC and Energy Saver Preference changes do not cure these problems, then you will need to seek service help.
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Weird fonts problem

The other day, I noticed that the fonts in my folder looked a bit off. For example, if I look at my "Applications" folder, it looks like some letters are in bold while others are not.
The same thing is happening in Safari. Certain letters don't appear at all, while others just appear to be formatted incorrectly. In fact, while I'm typing this very message, the font looks 'wrong'.
It's hard to describe, but it looks like when you take a font and use it in a size that it wasn't formatted for.
Any ideas??

Not sure how I fixed it, but I did. I played around with my 'smooth fonts' setting, so that may have been what the problem was. But, I'm really not sure.

Weird font problem - Can't remove/navigate "Favorites".

My 'Fonts' dialog won't let me delete any fonts from either the "Favorites" or "Recently Used" collections. Furthermore, it's difficult to select a font from either list. And I can't use the arrow keys to navigate up/down the list, it will touch a couple of them, but it just alternates between them.
I tried removing the font cache 'sudo atsutil database remove' and rebooting. No effect. I also found that one font, Ariel, had some 'Minor' problems (according to FontBook), so I removed it, cleared the font cache again, and rebooted. No effect.
I googled around and couldn't find any solutions.
Has anyone experienced this before? Very strange. Fonts themselves seem to be working okay, but having a corrupt Font Dialog (if that's what it is) is annoying.
Here's a picture of what I see in my Fonts Favorites list: <http://iridesnow.com/images/fonts.png>

Which OS are you using?
I posted this message in the "Mac OS X v10.5 Leopard" discussion category. That is the OS I am using.
Why do you want to delete fonts from your lists?
Maybe they're not my "favorites" any more, or haven't been used "recently". Why does it matter? I should be able to, at a minimum, remove fonts from my Favorites collection.
"Your Favorites" are the fonts that are used the most.
They are fonts that I added to that collection. It shouldn't matter how often I use them.
And "Most Recently Used" are exactly that.
Except several of them have not been used recently (depending on your definition of the term "recently").
What exactly is the error message, and does it only refer to Arial?
It did not say. FontBook simply said there were "minor" problems with certain versions of the Arial font.
Arial is used by Word.
Good to know. I never use MS Word, nor do I use Arial.
What do you think you will gain by trying to remove Arial?
Fwiw, I did not completely remove it, only the (four out of five) aspects of it that FontBook said had "minor" problems. My thinking was that perhaps a corrupted/problem font in FontBook was somehow interfering with the Fonts dialog ability to correctly display/manipulate the contents of the Favorites and Recently Used collections. It was an unlikely long shot, but since I never use Arial, I didn't care about removing it. And "removing" actually only moves the files into the trash, so if I wanted I could have retrieved them.
Rob

Very weird monitor problem, betcha can't solve this one.

OK I have a MacBook Pro 2.4GHz with 4GB of Ram, it's fully up to date with Lion, and is connected to a Formac W2300-1U 23 inch TFT Monitor (DVI, VGA, 1920 x1080, 1000:1, 5ms, 400cd/m²) through a HDMI to Mini port adaptor.
Now, the problem is the monitor flicks off, then on, at first I thought it was just randomly, but today I isolated the problem to something specific that make it happen. When I open the preference panel, and click on 'Trackpad' as soon as the video demo starts to play the monitor switches off then on.
It's totally weird, what on earth could be causing this? Any ideas?

ok well i have no idea what happened. i started out again with a fresh installation of JBoss, and it worked. no clue as to what was wrong. musta been some JAR that was out of place or something.
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Very weird internet problem :I

Hi everyone, I am calling for all the experts because I have spent my last two days resolving this problem without any success.
I moved to a new location Saturday where I set up my Airport Extreme to provide a wifi network. The extreme is connected to the ISP's modem in Bridge mode. ISP modem address is 192.168.1.254. My Macbook gets usually the 192.168.1.4 IP address, DHCP is the 192.168.1.254. I have in this network my MacBook and the wife's Vista on a desktop PC. MacBook is up-to-date with 10.5.8. (Or, better to say, that was the starting system version)
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Safari and Firefox makes the same, so it is probably not a Safari bug.
The machine with Vista (on the same network) works with every webpage (using Firefox). I didn't had this problem on the old location.
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- I connected the MacBook via cable to the Extreme (Aiport in MacBook disabled), same problem.
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- I created a new network location, nothing.
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- Tested browser capablities in various sites. I had some which were not loading at all, but the ones that worked gave back a good result, meaning every plug-in worked.
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- With the help of apple support I deleted some System configuration files which were automatically generated by new start, nothing
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- The I did an update (through Software Update, bandwith was O.K). System 10.5.8, newest Safari, the same problem that I had before archive and install. Youtube won't load at all.
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So, would it mean, that if I connect my Extreme in bridge mode, than I do not have double NAT and that is the correct way of connection?
To clarify the situation, I have a microwave antenna and that is connected to the ISP router. Then a LAN port of the ISP router is connected to the WAN port of the Extreme. (I did try to connect it to a LAN port of the Extreme, everything was the same).

Very critical font problem in premier pro cs5

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I am trying to compose using third party fonts (e.g. shreelipi), in premier pro CS5, it's showing me all fonts in list, but when I try to apply the fonts it does not give the required character or u in short it does not apply's the fonts. Messed up with this problem, if some one knows the solution then please help me out for the same.
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VERY WEIRD MIC PROBLEM! After latest upgrade(23.4.A.0.546) Z2

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Weird font problem on Yosemite pop up boxes

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The fontsmith's info makes it quite clear that th/thorn etc. is a
localization thing. Historical is only long esses:
http://www.crazydiamond.co.uk/ot-features.html
This seems to work for me inasmuch as it certainly toggles the
otfLocale feature on and off for selected text (the equivalent of
checking/unchecking it in the OTF flyout if it were there, which it
isn't), but I don't seem to have any font with that feature to test
it on:
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//An InDesign CS3 JavaScript
//Nicked and adapted from another script supplied with ID CS3
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case "Character":
case "Word":
case "TextStyleRange":
case "Line":
case "Paragraph":
case "TextColumn":
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case "Story":
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default:
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text and try again.");
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alert("Please select some text and try again.");
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First of all, replying with "I have had the same problem and Tech Support hasn't been able to help me at all!" is not going to help anyone.
In fact, it's kind of considered "thread-jacking" and is considered rude.
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My advice for the future, if you're having problems, start your own thread. Don't jump onto someone else's thread because no matter how similar your problems may be, there is no possible way that your problem could be EXACTLY the same as that other person. There are going to be differences between computer configurations, etc.

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Last edited by Hmail (2015-04-30 11:55:22)

Hi,
Follow the guide
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Op … e-shooting
It works. You must do the settings while the menus are in chaos characters. The following images show the places where you must modify the settings in OO.
Press OK if a step is complete. (OK is two "stars".)
For me, this fixed it and worked for libre as well.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7050154/Arch/step1.png
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7050154/Arch/step2.png
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7050154/Arch/step3.png
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Apple Banned me, because of a very weird problem with my "Factory Unlocked"

Hi Everybody! Im having a very weird problem with my unlocked iphone 4.
First of all, i would like to apologize because of my english, is not very good. My native language is Spanish.
Well.. Im from Mexico, and here we can buy the iphone Unlocked on the Apple Online Store.
Here's my problem. Apple has exchanged my iphone 3 times.
I returned the iphone the first time because the screen was totally yellowish, other than that everything was working great!, that was by the end of September.
On October 20th, i recieved my second iphone, and then a bigger problem started .
Before i continue, let me give you this information: here in Mexico we have basically 3 cell phone companies
1.- Telcel
2.- Movistar
3.- Unefon
OK, now on october 20th, i recieved my second iphone, and then procced to activate via itunes using my UNEFON sim card (microsim).
And every time i tried to activate it, only got this message onscreen:
http://i148.photobucket.com/albums/s2/jorgelomeli/Screenshot2010-10-29at24915PM. png
I though something was wrong with my brand new factory unlocked iphone 4.
I have 4 more simcards from my brothers (they all had iphone 4 too)
I tried telcel sim card, and i could activate my iphone. Then i insterted the Movistar microsim, and it worked too!! But then when i put the Unefon sim, the itunes logo inmediatly appears on the screen asking to activate on itunes, and when i tried that, the only response i got was the image above saying " The Simcard inserted on this iphone does not appear to be supported"
Weird thing here is, that, when i put my Unefon sim card on my brothers iphone 4, it worked great! on all of them, internet 3g, phone, wireless , evrything!
I called apple support, and they exchange the iphone for another one.
I recieved the third iphone on October 29. Last friday. and guess what? SAME PROBLEM! different serial number, same week production (week 42) but exactly the same message on itunes.
Very, very frustrated, i called apple again, and after 1 hour with thechnical support, they told me " We are sorry, but we can only offer you, your money back, NO MORE EXCHANGES FOR YOU"
I said why?... i dont want my money back! i want an UNLOCKED iphone!, but they refuse to give me another iphone.
When i asked techincal support, why my unefon sim card worked great on all three of my brothers iphone but not on mine, he just told me, "I really dont know, i guess they just got lucky" ****, this answer put all my trust i had on apple products for years, right on the garbage.
Since they refused to give me another iphone, i accepted my money back, and inmediatly after i finished the call, i asked my brother to buy me one more time an iphone 4 using his name, and his credit card. Now i have to wait until November 8-12 to recieve my new iphone, hoping this time i get a REAL UNLOCKED iphone, and not a partially unlocked iphone.
btw. i even went to Unefon costumer service and bought a new prepiad line, with a new microsim, just to be 100% sure that this problem is not because of the sim. And again didnt worked on my iphone, but it worked on any of my brothers iphone4.
Serial numbers of the 3 iphones:
79039C0U* (this one worked great with Unefon, only problem was yellow screen)
85042GR4*
81042FJB*
What do you suggest me? any info would be really aprecciated
FYI i also restore 4 times the last iphone and nothing seemed to work, i use 3 different computers, Macbook Pro, iMac, and an Hp with Windows 7, and the same message on all three computers.
Wierd thing also, one of my brothers bougth an iphone 4 this last week too, but he bought the 16Gb not the 32Gb. His iphone production week is 42 also! and when i put my Unefon sim in his iphone works great!
I dont know what else i can do, I just need to have faith that my new iphone coming this november will be real unlocked, but what if i'll recieve an iphone and then the same problem?? time for android? just kidding really guys, what can i do? anyone with similar problem like me? i dont wanna use Telcel or Movistar, i wanna use Unefon, and thats why i bought an Unlocked iphone
btw: jailbreak is not a solution for me, because i always like to use legal software on all my apple products, and because of the warranty.

According to http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1937, there are two official carriers in Mexico (Movistar and Telcel) and neither carrier offers an unlocked phone.

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