Re: Displayed characters not matching typed characters (help!)
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- Subject: [mg12667] Re: Displayed characters not matching typed characters (help!)
- From: paulh (P.J. Hinton)
- Date: Mon, 1 Jun 1998 23:16:41 -0400
- Organization: Wolfram Research, Inc.
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In article <6kpvtk$sjt at smc.vnet.net>, hello at there.com (Rod Pinna)
writes:
|> Mathematica has decided to behave very strangely indeed. Upon
running |> it this morning, it has suddenly started to not display the
correct |> characters.
|>
|> For example typing { displays an 8, and other (seemingly) random |>
replacements, though the particular characters are replaced by the |>
same ones each time. This is version 3.0.1.1x for Windows, running on
|> NT4, with the kernel which has been fixed to stop memory errors.
A discussion of the underlying reason for the character substitution
you're seeing has been posted here before. Search the Deja News old
article archive, using the following input for your search:
~a(P.J. Hinton) ~s(key entry problems)
to pull up a brief explanation.
|> The replacements occur in both new notebooks, and existing ones that
|> are loaded, but the error does *not* occur in any other apps. |>
|> Two possibilities: the first is that I was editing the style sheets,
|> but this did not occur directly after doing that. Secondly, I tried
to |> load Publicon 0.9 onto the machine. I didn't get this to
install, and |> subsequently uninstalled it. Again, it Mathematica
*was* working |> normally after this.
|>
|> I've also tried rebooting, to no avail. |>
|> Any suggestions? (I would like to avoid reinstalling, as it involves
|> getting the support staff to do it, and they can be, um, bloody
hard |> to get...)
Chances are that you've screwed up the Math font installation. See the
FAQ page at URL for some remedies specific to Windows.
http://www.wolfram.com/support/Systems/Windows/FE/FontsNotWorking.html
If the information there does not solve your problem, please let me
know.
--
P.J. Hinton
Mathematica Programming Group paulh at wolfram.com Wolfram Research,
Inc. http://www.wolfram.com/~paulh/ Disclaimer: Opinions expressed
herein are those of the author alone.