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Unicode & Fonts broken

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I am on a Macbook Pro, and I used CCleaner and my fonts and unicode broke. I had this happen once before, but I cannot remember how I fixed this. The font is now Serif and basically all unicode symbols are broken. I have done a fresh install and it did not help, disabling add-ons and restarting, and still no fix.

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I am on a Macbook Pro, and I used CCleaner and my fonts and unicode broke. I had this happen once before, but I cannot remember how I fixed this. The font is now Serif and basically all unicode symbols are broken. I have done a fresh install and it did not help, disabling add-ons and restarting, and still no fix. See example below:
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I fixed it doing this. 1. Close all applications. (Important!) 2. Start Terminal (located in the Utilities folder; press Command-Shift-U to open this folder). 3. Type sudo atsutil databases -remove and press Return. 

  Type your password at the prompt (no characters will echo back to the screen).

4. When the process is complete, type exit to end your command line session, choose File > Quit to exit Terminal, then restart your Macintosh.


All Credits To: https://gist.github.com/jaredhowland/2da83f0cc0fbb1ac523f https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1256594

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Chosen Solution

I fixed it doing this. 1. Close all applications. (Important!) 2. Start Terminal (located in the Utilities folder; press Command-Shift-U to open this folder). 3. Type sudo atsutil databases -remove and press Return. 

  Type your password at the prompt (no characters will echo back to the screen).

4. When the process is complete, type exit to end your command line session, choose File > Quit to exit Terminal, then restart your Macintosh.


All Credits To: https://gist.github.com/jaredhowland/2da83f0cc0fbb1ac523f https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1256594