Title: MAc – odd characters displayed
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# MAc – odd characters displayed

 *  Resolved [rueger](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rueger/)
 * (@rueger)
 * [19 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/mac-odd-characters-displayed/)
 * Using 2.1.3 with K2.
 * Suddenly – within the last week I think – some charcters are not displaying right
   on the Mac (g4 Powerbook, OSX all updated)
 * For instance I am looking at the “Manage Posts” screen.
 * A Page Title that should read “We’re Live” actually displays as “We (small circle
   like a degree symbol)(Large O with a stroke through it)re Liv”
 * Obviously the offending text couldn’t be copied over via cut and paste.
 * I’ve no idea what changed. Any ideas?
 * The same sort of things are happening in the public displayed posts.

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 *  Thread Starter [rueger](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rueger/)
 * (@rueger)
 * [18 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/mac-odd-characters-displayed/#post-596517)
 * After spending three hours trolling those forum posts in several places I finally
   found a solution!
 * **STEP ONE**: FontBook’ Validate Font tells me that LucindaGrande.dfont was damaged.(“
   FOND Bounding Box Table”) This is one of the absolute must have System Fonts.
 * **STEP TWO**:I downloaded Pacifist ([http://www.charlessoft.com/](http://www.charlessoft.com/))
   and used it to re-install the system fonts from the OS X install discs. This 
   did not solve the problem.
 * > “Pacifist 2.0.1 is a shareware application that opens Mac OS X .pkg package
   > files, .dmg disk images, and .tar, .tgz, and .tar.gz file archives and allows
   > you to extract individual files and folders out of them. This is useful, for
   > instance, if an application which is installed by the operating system becomes
   > damaged and needs to be reinstalled without the hassle of reinstalling all 
   > of Mac OS X. “
 * **STEP THREE:**At the recommendation of another forum discussion, I think at 
   Apple, I downloaded and installed Linotype FontExplorer™ X ([http://www.linotype.com/fontexplorerX](http://www.linotype.com/fontexplorerX))
   It did its install thing then offered to clear the font caches – of which there
   were many. I said “yes” and re-started. Problem still exists.
 * > FontExplorer™ X sets a new standard for font management software. Linotype 
   > is pleased to announce the missing link to your font collection. With the new
   > FontExplorer™ X, font management, font sorting, font shopping and font discovery
   > are simple and fun! FontExplorer™ X gives computer users all the functionality
   > they ever dreamed – easy to use with an elegant style.
 * **STEP FOUR**:Fontbook validation now shows TWO entries for LucindaGrande.dfont,
   one good, one damaged. I deleted the broken one.
 * **STEP FIVE:**I just tried to empty the Trash, and was unable to because LucindaGrande.
   dfont was in use. I restart again and empty the trash.
 * Problem solved. You must not only REPLACE the damaged system font, you must also
   delete it from FontBook, and then restart and empty the trash.

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 * Last activity: [18 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/mac-odd-characters-displayed/#post-596517)
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