Weird characters in Safari since iOS update

[shonamelissa]

Hey there,

I just updated to El Capital yesterday and now some text in Safari is displaying as characters. It happens on every website but I have attached a screenshot from Facebook as an example. Only happening in Safari since the upgrade.

Anyone else seeing the same?

Shona

 

[shonamelissa]

Anyone?

 

[charlenee]

Hey there,

I just updated to El Capital yesterday and now some text in Safari is displaying as characters. It happens on every website but I have attached a screenshot from Facebook as an example. Only happening in Safari since the upgrade.

Anyone else seeing the same?

Shona

I have the exact same issue on my computer. Started after updating to OS X El Capitan. No updates solved the issue. I see this problem on some other apps as well, not just Safari. Thought it was just me until I finally saw this post!

 

[shonamelissa]

I have the exact same issue on my computer. Started after updating to OS X El Capitan. No updates solved the issue. I see this problem on some other apps as well, not just Safari. Thought it was just me until I finally saw this post!

Glad to hear I'm not the only one! Now I wish someone had a solution ...
I'm thinking perhaps it's one of our system fonts? But I'm not really sure what to do with that assumption. Would rather wait and see if there's a more solid answer.

 

[charlenee]

Glad to hear I'm not the only one! Now I wish someone had a solution ...
I'm thinking perhaps it's one of our system fonts? But I'm not really sure what to do with that assumption. Would rather wait and see if there's a more solid answer.

While searching for a solution I found this thread (totally different issue but somehow similar) and tried the suggested fix. It appears to have worked on my end: https://discussions.apple.com/message/24097328#24097328 Hope it works with you too. Please try it and share the outcome.

 

[shonamelissa]

While searching for a solution I found this thread (totally different issue but somehow similar) and tried the suggested fix. It appears to have worked on my end: https://discussions.apple.com/message/24097328#24097328 Hope it works with you too. Please try it and share the outcome.

Thanks Charlenee. I'm a graphic designer so I have a LOT of custom fonts and thought this might be the issues but since they weren't a problem with any of the other OS I wonder why they have to be now.
Anyway, I made a backup of them and used FontBook to restore both the system folder and user folder back to default fonts and also cleared the caches. This has WORKED.
Slowly adding my own custom fonts back and checking for issues as I go. It'll be a slow journey but at least I can read text in Safari now!

Thanks you.