Dear Mushfa, as you guessed, you have to change your system locale so that it matches your user locale. See: http://www.mathworks.co.uk/help/matlab/matlab_env/characters-incorrectly-displayed-on-windows-systems.html If the problem persists, try this: https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/SPM/Installation_on_64bit_Windows#Troubleshooting Best regards, Guillaume. On 07/11/14 15:42, Mushfa Yousuf wrote: > Hello, > me and some other people of our lab have problems with the SPM GUI. The > font in the GUI is very strange and seems to be scrambled. We think the > problem is somehow related to Windows, the Unicode and Language/Country > settings but found no solution. The posts below address the same > question but didn’t help us to solve the problem: > > https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=spm;bf256bac.1209 > <https://solaris.neuro.uni-luebeck.de/owa/redir.aspx?C=1312d92739da4a6e80a2a768da4987d6&URL=https%3a%2f%2fwww.jiscmail.ac.uk%2fcgi-bin%2fwebadmin%3fA2%3dspm%3bbf256bac.1209> > https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=spm;81d2bca1.1305 > <https://solaris.neuro.uni-luebeck.de/owa/redir.aspx?C=1312d92739da4a6e80a2a768da4987d6&URL=https%3a%2f%2fwww.jiscmail.ac.uk%2fcgi-bin%2fwebadmin%3fA2%3dspm%3b81d2bca1.1305> > > Has anyone an idea? I have also attached the screenshot of SPM GUI for > the reference to my problem. > Thank you a lot! > Matthias > > -- > Mushfa Yousuf > Cognitive Neuroimaging group > > Department of Neurology____ > > University of Lübeck____ > > Email: mushfa.yousuf <http://goog_1772983183>@neuro.uni-luebeck.de > <http:[log in to unmask]> > -- Guillaume Flandin, PhD Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging University College London 12 Queen Square London WC1N 3BG