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I got a question about a font used in a java based menu.

When visiting this page it has the menu "Forum, Help, Games, Players....". I can see it as intended, I can click and open the sub-menus, which come windows-style (gray background, black font), but I cannot read any menu entry, because each character is displayed as "O" (the placeholder for non-existent characters).

I assume its a font problem of my PC rather than a problem of the webpage.

How can I identify the font used there in those sub-menu? The souce code of the page itself only defines the font for the the top level entries to the menu, which I can see alright. I'm using Win98SE, FF 1.0.7de, (though its the same with IE) and Java 1.5.0_01-b08.

Thanks.

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I have no idea what font it is, but it doesn't look to extraordinary on my Opera 8.50 with Java 1.5.0_02-b09 on Windows XP. The only fonts I've ever added are those of Office 2003 and some phonetic alphabets by Langenscheidt. If I were you I'd try getting a Java update, but I don't know if that solves the problem. It might also be a Unicode thing which is simply not supported on/by Win98.

If it helps any, I've made some screenshots of the menus in question. If all else fails you might at least be able to use them as a navigation help.

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This post was edited by null on Sep 24, 2005.

Minor update: it also works fine on my work computer (XPSP2, Opera 8.50, Java 1.4.1_07). I think it's got something to do with your Windows.

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Works fine over here, too. I also looked at the applet source and it appears to use the font specified in the HTML everywhere (except the loading message, which is in Arial).

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Dunno what the problem is, looks fine on the mathlab computers at my college (SUSE Linux w/ FF 1.0.6 and Java 1.4.2_08).

Its obviously not Java I dont' think, and shouldn't be FF...

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This post was edited by eljefe on Oct 06, 2005.

Its a strange thing indeed... Thanks everybody for checking it out on your different machines.

I tried looking into the problem every now and then, but didn't find a solution yet. Its for sure though, that its a problem of MY PC, not the web site or any software involved.

I found out that several fonts I have installed behave really strange (including "Sans Serif", the one used in that menu). When checking them in the system/fonts folder by opening the preview they appear alright, but as soon as I use them in a third party software like Word or PSP, they are corrupted showing those "O"s only. I tried uninstalling, re-booting and re-installing them from various sources (other PC, clean Windows cabs, Office CD), but nothing helps, they always appear corrupted as soon as I use them in any software. Sounds like a virus or some malware really, but every test and check with the newest gadgets was negative. Never heard of anything like that before, nor did I find any rumors about it out there.

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