My Mac Can't Count

This one mystifies me.

The Raw HTML

This is on my MacBook Pro. How in the world to you go from this HTML:

As Rendered in the Browser

To this in the browser?

Look carefully at the sequence of digits for the default font.

This happens in both safari and firefox. Javascript is disabled. Disabling CSS will cause all 7s to look like 9s (because everything is then in the defaualt font).

Huh?

Any clues on how to fix this would be welcome.

Update

Several people have reported they can’t reproduce it. Here is additional information:

Mac OS 10.4.10
Firefox 2.0.0.6
Safari 3.0.3

Also, copying and pasting what looks to be “0123456979” into a text editor will give “0123456789”. Perhaps a font is corrupted so the “7” is displaying as a “9” glyph?

Update 2—Problem Fixed

John Guenin suggests: Try resetting your font caches: http://www.jamapi.com/pr/fn

Thanks John. I downloaded FontNuke from the link provided and although the program itself was a bit flaky, I finally got a clean run from it and after rebooting the problem has been fixed. So the verdict is that it was probably a bad font cache that was displaying the “7” glyph incorrectly.

Whew.

Thanks to everyone who made suggestions.

Trouble with MacPorts

This happened to me just this past week.

Trouble Installing Packages with MacPorts?

If you are having problem installing packages with the macports port command, double check that you have the latest version of Xcode installed (version 2.4.1 at this point in time). A number of packages install with much less hassle when you are up to date.

Just speaking from experience.

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