Safari Won't Display Hotmail (font)

[Natobasso]

Help!

I am trying to just use Safari, but I need access to hotmail and Safari is displaying "fractions" instead of text when I log into my account. Is there any way to fix this? This is the last thing keeping me in Explorer and I want to get away from it once and for all.

 

[fbp_]

hotmail works fine with my safari.
are you using the default fonts in safari?
do you have a global css set somewhere?
not using english as the language for osx?

 

[Natobasso]

I have the language set to Western (Mac OS)

I don't think I have a global css. Where would I find it?

I have english set. All other websites besides hotmail function just fine.

Any ideas?

 

[bkaron]

I have kinda the same problem, I can't use hotmail with Safari. I think it has somthing to do with hotmail being created using microsoft software and Safari is still kinda new. Hopfuly this will be fixed in future versions

 

[Randman]

What version of Safari? It works just fine on 1.2.1

 

[Natobasso]

Version 1.0.2

Maybe I need the version that comes with 10.3? I am running 10.2.8. I will bet it's the earlier version that has this bug.

 

[Randman]

Yes, the first few builds of Safari had problems with Hotmail. Update to the latest version and you'll be quite happy to find that the problem has already been solved.

 

[samwise_bruce]

I found this thread because I had the same problem (using Safari, Hotmail showed up with fractions).

The post previous to this said to download the newest Safari, but I had that and it still didn't work (OS 10.3.3, Safari 1.2 125).

But I've found the answer -- at least on my computer -- There were two versions of Helvetica Fractions in my Library / Fonts folder (and therefore in Font Book).

Probably deleting either one will fix the problem. (You have to delete it from your Library / Fonts folder, not from Font Book.)

Now Hotmail works fine.

Hope this helps.

 

[Natobasso]

Samwise; Great tip! I will try it tonight. Thanks!