AbiWord fonts all messed up

[Andrew]

On Sat, 2004-05-15 at 18:09, Clinton MacDonald wrote:
> Friends:
> 
> Darn! I was just starting to really like AbiWord 1.0.2, and then this 
> happened: all the fonts are effed up. When I start up AbiWord or create 
> a new document, all letters look like "Q" or a weird accented "Y." If I 
> type a phrase, every letter emerges as two or three Qs. Even the status 
> bar at the bottom of the window is weird (the accented Y). Has anyone 
> encountered this before?
> 
> This one is so odd, that I cannot even begin to imagine what I could 
> have been messing with to achieve the effect. :-) I am guessing 
> something about Unicode might be amiss, but I am totally making that up.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Best wishes,
> Clint

You must wear a tinfoil aluminium hat!