Windows 10: system Font SEGOE FLUENT display in Windows 11 font manager is garbled with strange wingdings

Look at this screenshot/ when i type something in the example box its all garbled. also the preview box for the font int he previous screen under <fonts> is also garbled. the segmdl font is also garbled. How to fix this? cannot uninstall system font.font cache, font reset didn't work.

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Segoe UI Fluent Icons (and/or segmdl2) font files are broken/corrupted

Hello Dave, thank you for your answer.



I've tried the tenforums.com option (2), but that didn't work.

I am unable to follow DaveM121's solution as I don't have another Windows 11 PC, however, I tried to install the Segoe Fluent Icons and MDL2 font files from Microsoft (links below) but that didn't work either.

Segoe Fluent Icons: Segoe Fluent Icons font - Windows apps

Segoe UI Symbol (MDL2): https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/apps/design/style/segoe-ui-symbol-font

 

Segoe UI Fluent Icons (and/or segmdl2) font files are broken/corrupted

I deleted the individual string values for the three fonts (Segoe Fluent Icons, Segoe MDL2 Assets, Segoe UI Emojis[another thing I modified back on Windows 10]). I have a few custom fonts I use and don't want Windows to not recognise them or something.

Thank you again.

 

Help, Windows 10 system fonts changed to Wingdings

Last night I copied a single font from my Mac to my Windows 10 desktop. I copied the file, right-clicked on it and chose Install. It seemed to work fine, I used the font for a few hours in Photoshop then shutdown and went to bed.

When I booted up this morning all of my fonts were Wingdings or something similar, and my system is basically unusable. I searched the issue and found a bunch of old threads with suggestions. The command prompt is readable and there's hundreds of fonts in
the C:\Windows\Fonts directory. However, Control Panel\Fonts only shows 3 fonts.

I exported HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\Current Version\Fonts from a working Windows 10 machine and launched the .reg file on my wingdings machine, but it didn't fix the issue.

So then I copied all the files from c:\windows\fonts on my working Windows 10 machine over to the wingdings machine. It created a ton of duplicates in the fonts directory, but it worked. The system fonts slowly started changing back to the correct ones.
Boot once I reboot they all go back to wingdings, and Control Panel\Fonts goes back to only showing 3 fonts again. So I can continue copying c:\windows\fonts from a good machine to the wingdings machine which seems to reinstall all the fonts but it also keeps
creating more and more duplicates and the \fonts directory keeps growing, but it still goes back to wingdings after every reboot.

Does anyone have any suggestions for how to reinstall all of my fonts in a way that will persist after reboots? Short of performing a device reset, I'm saving that for the last resort.

Thanks

Jason