IE and Firefox both displaying fonts in italics

[beeswax]

I don't know if this is the right place for this, but last night I was browsing away using Firefox and I noticed all my fonts, except those in bold had changed to italics. I switched to IE, and the same was happening there. I've searched tools options etc and a quick look on the net but can't find an explanation. Does anyone know why this should happen. My AV software is up to date.

 

cheers,

beeswax

[indie]

Could be a few things but try this first...

 

In IE:

View > Encoding > Make sure "Western European (ISO)" is selected

 

In Firefox:

View > Character Encoding > Mine is set to "Unicode (UTF-8)"

 

Although if it's effecting both browsers it could be some system wide setting, try this link.

 

 

indie

[beeswax]

thanks Indie. Shortly after posting my cry for help I did another search (I was tired last night) and managed to come up with a solution. For some reason My Aial Regular font had been deleted/disappeared, and so my browsers looked for the next in line, which happened to be Arial Italic. I downloaded another set from the link below and all's well.

 

Arial fonts

 

cheers

beeswax

[beeswax]

just to add to the sum of knowledge on this subject, the fonts on my office computer became italic in both browsers this morning. At first I thought it was perhaps a virus of some sort, but then thought a bit more and realized that the connection was probably Mambo Stand Alone Server. I'd just uninstalled it, and that's probably what I'd done at home.

MSAS seesm like a good product for testing mambo on stand alone machines or those without any webspace, if only they get it right.

 

beeswax

[pshuttle]

The Joomla! Stand Alone Server is due out any time (prob later this week). The font problem has been corrected in this release.

 

Pete

[beeswax]

nice to know that. have you had any experience of Infinity Menus?

 

beeswax