Odd characters in Mail.app and Adium

[JPigford]

Mail.app and Adium, in the past 24 hours, have started randomly turning names, and messages in to all sorts of jumbled text and unreadable odd characters. If I close the programs and restart them, they'll be back to normal for a while and then switch back to it.

 

[Satcomer]

It sounds like you have some corrupted fonts. I had a similar problem a while back but a great piece of shareware was out there that fix it. It is called Font Finagler.

 

[xero]

does this look like your issue?
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=151546

it's a common problem w/ a simple fix.

 

[JPigford]

Well neither Finagler or that apple doc did the trick. I'm getting these odd characters all over the place in many different apps now.

 

[JPigford]

Somebody...anybody...

 

[bobw]

Boot into a new user and see if it happens.

Try Font Cache Cleaner

 

[JPigford]

I'll check those out when I get home. Also, just FYI if it matters, these problems occur AFTER I open Extensis Suitcase. None of the fonts are actually activated, but that's when problems with fonts start happening. I suspect it's some bad fonts (i've got about 3,000) but the "scan & repair" feature in suitcase isn't really good for anything.

 

[bobw]

You either have a corrupt font or cache.