Strange characters in attribute table

[IB3]

Hi, 

I just added a shapefile to Arcmap which was previously created in QGIS. I get strange characters instead of text. (see screen capture)

Does anyone know how I can solve this problem? 

Thanks

Isabelle

[DanPatterson]

codepage of the document?  It looks like the language/internationalization settings on your machine differ from those used to create the table.  I would check it through qgis since arc* isn't going to be able to fix that

[JeffHouser]

Looks like one of the "wingdings" font...characters represented by symbols?  For e.g. the symbol in column1 Row 1, is a folder-symbol, which is 0.  The symbol in Column1 Row 11, is a open folder with a close folder, which is 10.  

[RhettZufelt · Accepted solution]

I believe Jeff is correct.

If this is all that is going on here, you should be able to select "Appearance" at the bottom of the table dropdown menu, then change the font to Ariel, or some other font with normal characters.

R_

[IB3]

Hi @RhettZufelt @JeffHouser , I couldn't change it to ariel, but it did work with other character, verdana, times... Thanks!