For the past week or so, I’ve been playing with a new toy: a shiny iBook that I picked up on the cheap (it’s a G3 - I don’t need the latest and greatest since it’s primarily a testing and portability machine). It’s been great fun to finally get my hands on a working copy of OS X and see what it can do, and so far I’m enjoying myself.
I have encountered one strange phenomenon, though, and I can’t seem to find any record of it on the web (which is an oddity in and of itself) - for the past week, when I’ve been hooked into my home network, this site (culann.com) appears a little odd:
For some reason, all the normal weight roman style text of the site is replaced with garbage characters; any unusual text (italics, bold, or numerals) show up correctly.
I finally did a little troubleshooting earlier tonight; it turns out that if Safari didn’t recognize the first font in my font-family declaration, it would spit out the garbage characters instead of moving down the list as it was supposed to. It’s a bit perplexing; this installation of Safari doesn’t exhibit the problem when I put the same font lists in other sites’ CSS. As Velma might say, Jinkies!
Looks like I’ll be doin’ some hard-core testing this weekend. Unless, of course, one of you helpful readers has seen this phenomenon before and can shed some light on the situation?