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October 31, 2006

Weird Mac OS X Font Corruption

Every now and then, if I have been logged into my machine (Mac Pro, OS X 10.4.8) for a few days, I get weird font corruption. It affects a single character, usually a "t" or a "\"

And it affects all my apps: emacs, terminal, etc that use that same font (in my case, Monaco 10pt.)

See the goofy back slashes:

Backslash Corruption

Then log out, and log back in again:

Screenshot 61

It's creepy, and annoying, because it takes a while to figure out why things
on the screen don't quite look right.

Posted by billo at October 31, 2006 11:03 AM

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