Weird Problem with jumbled textcharacters….using Entourage

[jpf566]

Version: 2004
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger)
Processor: Intel

Ok, I am having a very odd character problem with MS Entourage 04…and another odd issue with Dreamweaver that may be related. I will explain them below.

Entourage
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Randomly when I get an email (I think it primarily happens with certain HTML emails) the characters will be crazy and jumbled looking! Easiest way to explain it is to show a picture so that's what I have done. FYI My character set is set to Auto.

Dreamweaver
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Many times, but not all of the times. (seemingly random and completely annoying) When I click to edit text within the design view my flashing | Cursor thing will come up where I click but then when I type…its not at the right place. It's a real pain, I will have to keep trying by trial and error because my cursor is not where it should be. I end up deleting things I don't want to and adding things where I Don't want them…does ANYONE know what could cause this???

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[Diane Ross]

Ok, I am having a very odd character problem with MS Entourage 04…and another
odd issue with Dreamweaver that may be related. I will explain them below.

In addition to trashing the com.microsoft.browserfont.cache, you can also
try trashing the tasmanbrowser.cache, which will be found in your
~/Library/Caches.

Installing gets funky fonts:

Funky fonts
When you¹re installing Microsoft Office 2008, the Installer advises you to
quit all open programs, even non-Microsoft ones. Take this advice seriously.

I inadvertently left Safari open and soon began having weird font display
problems in Safari. Text appeared as if a random-character generator had
typed it!

The fix is usually simple. Quit the problem program and relaunch it. This
forces it to access the updated font versions installed by Office 2008. If,
for some reason, this fails to do the trick, try deleting font caches using
a utility such as Mark Douma¹s $10 Font Finagler.

As a last resort, use Mac OS X¹s Font Book utility (it lives in your
Applications folder) to identify duplicate Microsoft fonts. Use Font Book¹s
Edit -> Resolve Duplicates command to turn off all versions except the most
recent one.