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05-12-2005 #1
Viewing Non-English Characters in Firefox
Also, on my Xanga page, I get symbols like this:
When I view the page in Lynx, there is nothing there. Viewing it in Konqueror shows me *'s.
My keyboard is set to en_US, though I can change the layout to Spanish and see those characters:
áéíóú
ñÑçǺª
So I am very confused. If anyone has any suggestions, I'd be very grateful. Thanks!
EDIT:
Oh, and viewing the Wikipedia page in Konqueror shows me little boxes instead of the Chinese characters. Viewing it in Lynx shows me the & numbers.
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05-12-2005 #2
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That happens to me with some asian signs, dont know from which country, even I am using a norvegian keybord and can write spanish and norvegian etc. characters (æøåèéàáòó...)
Are you sure the font you're using a font which supports chinese signs? I have stubled over a lot of fonts which don't support the norvegian charset...
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05-12-2005 #3
Well, I've done some playing around. Switching to other fonts, such as Arial, have not helped.
In my Xanga, I can get it showing properly if I set my character encoding to either:
Western (Windows-1252)
or
Auto-Detect: Universal
However, neither of these enables chinese characters. Is there anything else I can do?
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05-14-2005 #4
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I think maybe there are own font-sets to enable chinese characters... But I don't know for sure.
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05-17-2005 #5
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I get those question marks on English pages, too. Sometimes where apostrophe's are. I've experienced this in Firefox on Linux, and on Windows.
Who knows.
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05-17-2005 #6
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Are you sure you even have the language packs installed?
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05-19-2005 #7
To ensure that I had a Chinese character set, I emerged one. Still doesn't work.
Also, manually changing the encoding to a Chinese one still does nothing.
Any other ideas?
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05-31-2006 #8
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Adding character set support in Firefox/linux
Originally Posted by Cabhan
(as root)
Korean:
yum install ttfonts-ko
Chinese simplified:
yum install ttfonts-zh_CN
Chinese traditional:
yum install ttfonts-zh_TW
Then restart firefox with character set auto-detect and you should be fine.