You can copy and paste the odd characters into text edit and it will display properly. Restarting the machine works temporarily until it reoccurs. Restoring Standard fonts, Resolve Duplicates in Font Book doesn't work. We don't use an external font manager just Font Book. After this runs, the user logs back into their account and the fonts are back to normal. It happens so often to some of our users that I made a policy and script for Self Service #!/bin/bashĮcho This script clears the font cache and restarts the atsutil serverĮcho The next command will refresh the UI. (At least nothing out of the ordinary)įor me, it typically happens when I open my laptop up for the day to start some work or randomly throughout the course of the day. Issue: While using our machines, the font will randomly change to a series of boxed question marks or a series of As (only in a web browser) We aren't sure what the actual trigger is as Console logs don't really point to anything specific or alarming. Go to System Preferences > Keyboard and enable the option to Show keyboard and emoji viewers in menu bar.I've been trying to isolate an odd issue on various versions of Mac OS that's happening to several users in the workplace. If you're struggling to remember all the shortcuts you need, turn on the Keyboard Viewer for a live view of your keyboard shortcuts.
Use the Keyboard Viewer to See Live Shortcuts Take a look at our special characters cheat sheet for Mac to see every keyboard shortcut. The trademark symbol is Shift + Option + 2.
For example, the copyright symbol is Option + G. Using these shortcuts, it's possible to type a wide range of common special characters in an instant. But you can access even more special characters by using Option or Option + Shift with various keys on your Mac's keyboard. But power users can boost their productivity by learning specific shortcuts for all the special characters they need to use.Įverybody knows that you can type punctuation marks by holding the Shift key. This is especially true since you only need to remember a single keyboard shortcut. For most people, the Character Viewer is the easiest way to type special characters on a Mac.
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