[caledo]

Hi all !

I suddenly get weird suite symbols , both in lobby chat and bid boxes !

♣ became §

I'm using BBO 3.8.0 with Win Pro sp1

Somebody help me ,pleaaaaaase !!!!

[McBruce]

This happened to me after I downloaded a software program that diabolically replaced the Windows Symbol.ttf with its own version. This is the most likely cause. Find symbol.ttf and check its size, it should be about 67.8 KB. If not, you need to find the original (on your install CD) and put it back in the C:\Windows\Fonts folder.

[caledo]

Worked beautifully !!!!

Thank you so much !!!

Merci beaucoup !!!

[McBruce]

The next step is to find the software that performed the change and let them know that replacing the system.ttf font is actually quite a nuisance. In my case it was a demo of a football management sim.

[bearmum]

McBruce, on Jul 18 2004, 02:27 PM, said:

This happened to me after I downloaded a software program that diabolically replaced the Windows Symbol.ttf with its own version. This is the most likely cause. Find symbol.ttf and check its size, it should be about 67.8 KB. If not, you need to find the original (on your install CD) and put it back in the C:\Windows\Fonts folder.

being a computer "no hoper" can u tell me where to find 'Windows symbol.ttf'

[uday]

You can fire off an email to support@ and someone will send you a copy

[McBruce]

Since it sadly appears that there is software out there that replaces Windows core fonts, and that Microsoft no longer makes them freely available online:

With the next major rewrite of BBO, perhaps something to be considered would be a special BBO font, which could have the following advantages:

--the font would be installed when a user installed BBO but would reside deep within the BBO folder so that tampering with C:\Windows\Fonts could not lose it.
--rarely used special characters replaced with suit symbols and perhaps other useful things such as "NT" or "10" as a single character.
--Font metrics so that the client program could ensure that long chat lines would be broken at the right place.

It might be a good idea to have BBO Times, BBO Verdana and BBO Ariel.