In certain cells in my workbook, I'm getting weird symbols instead of the letters I want to type. No modifier keys or cap lock is on. I cleared contents of the cells to no avail. In the Text Import Wizard - Step 1 of 3 dialog box, select Delimited, and from the File origin drop-down list, select 65001: Unicode (UTF-8) (or the appropriate language character identifier for your particular environment).
Since upgrading to Mavericks I've had a rather odd problem with emails sent via my Mail app. When composing an email to be sent via an exchange server (rich text format, using Helvetica as the standard message font) all the characters look fine to me, but my recipients have suggested odd characters in my messages. It's not all the time, but I have no way to tell when the formatting is going to get screwed up. When I 'cc' to myself, I see thing's like quotations and apostrophes ( ' ) are replaced by ??? in the text, which suggests some sort of encoding problem. This is very frustrating, as it looks rather unprofessional! I'm using 10.9.4 and Mail Version 7.3 (1878.6). I see no way to change the message encoding in any of the preferences for the current Mail app.
Word 2016 for Mac Word for Mac 2011 More. Less Cause: The document contains a font that is not installed on your computer, and Word substituted an available font that doesn't include the same symbols and characters available in the original font. Hi, I have been having an issue for the past few days where I will copy and paste a body of text from evernote into another app and it will show some strange characters amidst the text (see picture below).
I'd be grateful if anyone has any suggestions!
OS X Mavericks (10.9.2)
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I just spent hour trying to fix tihs on my iMac and could find the answer so I wanted to post it for someone else. Mine was typing in crazy symbols (åß∂ƒ©).
Also I could not Command + Tab (shoot me), and when I clicked on a window in another app it hid the windows I was working in.
I tried new keyboards. And the system preferences stuff - system preferences - language & text - input sources. then select US. This didn't fix it.
Then I tried to change the keyboard shortcuts in the same window - spotlight (on left), unclick the show spotlight search field and the other one bellow. Then hit the com + Spacebar. This didn't fix it.
Then i did it and double check that i did it right and still didn't fix it.
Weird Symbols For Language
So I called apple support and they gave me the magical key to fix this.
Turn off your computer. Unplug for 30 sec, and everything attached. Then power it back on and hurry and hold Command + Option + P + R. I held Command + Option + P with one hand and then after I hit power I added the R.
The computer will make one chime. Keep holding it. I will then shut down and make one more chime and you can let go.
Taa daa!!
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I have a 27' iMac 2.93Ghz i7 with 10.8.2 (FYI).