# Other alphabets

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/other-alphabets/302463>\
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**Created:** [May 4, 2005, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/other-alphabets/302463 "2005-05-04T23:26:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\
**Post date:** [May 12, 2005, 7:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/other-alphabets/302463/21 "2005-05-12T07:26:01Z")

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Well, yes, hmm - that’s very helpful, **dougie** …

[**Piper** makes mental note: “ **dougie** - sound on poetry, but a weak reed in other respects.”]

Now I’ve got the other problem - I re-booted, and everything came back to normal, and then I hit a key combo of some sort, and everything is 10 pt, not 12 pt. What am I doing?

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**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\
**Post date:** [May 12, 2005, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/other-alphabets/302463/22 "2005-05-12T20:59:19Z")

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It might help if you tell us if this is everything changing, or just web pages, and if the latter, which browser you’re using, and in either case, what operating system. There’s usually some way to change text size which you’re presumably accidentally using, but what that way would be would depend on what you’re using.

If it helps, I think that in IE it’s something with control+mouse wheel, or alt+mouse wheel, or the like.

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