Weird looking characters displayed on certain websites

Safari displays some weird looking latin characters that are crushed together on certain english websites. I loaded the same website on the FireFox and Shiira browser and everything looked fine on those two.
Here's a screen shot I took:
http://i4.tinypic.com/10fw9wx.jpg
The website:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Zeiss
I use the same fonts/font setting on all browsers (Safari, FireFox, Shiira). It's just Safari having this problem.
Anyone having the same issue? Thanks

netwr,
According to Kurt Lang...Helvetica Fractions is a known source of many font issues. Kurt Lang also has an excellent treatise called Font Management in Mac OS X Tiger and Panther.
;~)

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