diff --git a/code/nel/src/gui/view_text.cpp b/code/nel/src/gui/view_text.cpp
index 45adbe245..cf3857102 100644
--- a/code/nel/src/gui/view_text.cpp
+++ b/code/nel/src/gui/view_text.cpp
@@ -1440,12 +1440,11 @@ namespace NLGUI
 		if (_FontName == name)
 			return;
 
-		if (_FontName.length() > 0)
-		{
-			if (_Index != 0xFFFFFFFF)
-				CViewRenderer::getTextContext(_FontName)->erase (_Index);
-			clearLines();
-		}
+		if (_Index != 0xFFFFFFFF)
+			CViewRenderer::getTextContext(_FontName)->erase (_Index);
+		clearLines();
+
+		resetTextIndex();
 
 		_FontName = name;
 		computeFontSize ();