Q about fonts

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Jorge Cervantes

My two computers (office and home) run WinXP Pro SP3 and IE8.
When I open http://en.wikipedia.org on my office computer, everything look
OK and normal . No problem.

But when I open the same http://en.wikipedia.org on my home computer, the
whole texts appear in a script font. Because of the font, it is very
difficult to read any article in Wikipedia. (So far, wikipedia website is
the only one which appears in script font).
Could somebody advise me how to change/correct the font issue? Jorge
 
Jorge Cervantes said:
My two computers (office and home) run WinXP Pro SP3 and IE8.
When I open http://en.wikipedia.org on my office computer, everything look
OK and normal . No problem.

But when I open the same http://en.wikipedia.org on my home computer, the
whole texts appear in a script font. Because of the font, it is very
difficult to read any article in Wikipedia. (So far, wikipedia website
is the only one which appears in script font).
Could somebody advise me how to change/correct the font issue? Jorge
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Hi Jorge,

Not sure if this helps, since I'm using IE6 and you are using IE8, but in
Internet Explorer, click Tools, click Internet Options. On the General tab I
have a "Fonts" button, which opens a dialog that says:

"The fonts you select here are displayed on Web pages and documents that do
not have a specified text font."

I have my web page font set to Verdana.

Your link pointed to this page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

Also check the "Accessibility" options for a checkbox that says, "Ignore
font styles specified on Web pages." I put a checkmark in that box and
clicked OK, and the font displaying on that web page changed to Verdana.

On the left side of that web page are Language options. You may have clicked
something on one of that site's web pages that told it you prefer script, so
you may need to "Delete Cookies" to start fresh.

HTH. (Hope This Helps. :)
--Richard
 
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