All fonts have changed into a capital A

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Hi,

A friend passed on a G4 laptop with a very weird problem. My own mac will never be updated beyound 10.3, the version on this laptop looks like 10.4.

All system fonts have changed. Some windows are still okay, like About this Macintosh. As for the rest all are the same capital A with a square around it. I know OSX won't let a user change the system font like Classic did. I read Tinkertool most likely won't do the job. I verified and repaired the permissions. Tomorrow I'll try MacJanitor and Onyx. I'm not comfortable with the Terminal. I do not yet know if another user on this laptop, which isn't created yet, might have the same problem.

Any idea how to solve this? Ever heard of a similar problem?
Thanks,
Tjeerd
 
Make your friend open Font Book and disable all the fonts he has added to it.
If the fonts look correct after that, it's some corrupted fonts. So enable back 50 % of the added ones, see if it occurs or not, eliminate 50 % of the remaining fonts until the faulty ones are recognized.
 
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