Text is garbled on Websites using Safari

[gaildeonn]

When I go to some webistes I get garbled type with numbers all smashed together. I've tried changing the default encoding in the pref menu but that didn't work. Can Someone help?

[ElDiabloConCaca]

Have you installed or removed any fonts lately? Done any "haxies" to your system? Installed any new programs that may have installed newer/older/different versions of a certain font?

[Giaguara]

You could try disabling fonts .. if you have installed any.
In Font Book, select your user, select there all fonts, and click on the "v" button which will disactivate the fonts. (All system fonts will still be active, they cannot be disactivated).
If Safari will behave correctly, it was caused by a bad font. If you have a lot of fonts, you can enable a part of them, test if the issue occurs, enable or disable some more until you would find the guilty one.
And if it wasn't the font, let us know so can test more.

[Veljo]

It could also be bad CSS coding. Post some links to the sites in question and let some other Safari users test them out.

[RacerX]

Originally Posted by gaildeonn

When I go to some webistes I get garbled type with numbers all smashed together.

Turn off Helvetica fractions... they don't work with Cocoa apps correctly.

[slaz55]

I agree with RacerX its Helvetica fractions unload it!

[nickjd]

I have a variant on these problems, in the form of Safari's garbled rendering of italic text on Wikipedia pages. I've tried all the usual fixes and still it happens, but only on Wikipedia. As yet, I've not seen it on other sites. Does anyone have this problem? Do they know how to fix it? Is it that WP use an italicised font that Safari can't read? Or is it me...?

Thanks

n

[chuckla]

I have a very similar, if not the same, problem- garbled appearing text on some web sites. It is always italicized text, and the garbled characers are two letters in the alphabet before what should be there. "the" shows up as "vfg" and spaces are represented by double quotes. This line: "Vjg"vqwt"iwfkg"tqnc{gf" is really "The tour guide relayed" from this site: http://blogs.walkerart.org/newmedia/?author=5

It is apparently purely a display issue, since copying and pasting yields the correct letters and spaces, though it loses its italics formatting. I tried to copy the paragraph above from its web site and paste it in this post, but had to type in the letters.

It's most frustrating- I run into it repeatedly.

Anybody got any ideas (other than changing browsers?)

Chuck