Viewing Non-English Characters in Firefox

[Cabhan]

I seem to be having some problems with viewing foreign characters in Firefox. For example, examining a page in Wikipedia with Chinese characters shows me, instead of the characters, a bunch of boxes with the (I assume) unicode numbers for that character.

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.

[jaboua]

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...

[Cabhan]

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?

[jaboua]

I think maybe there are own font-sets to enable chinese characters... But I don't know for sure.

[StayPuft]

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.

[a thing]

Are you sure you even have the language packs installed?

[Cabhan]

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?

[cloudrunner]

I seem to be having some problems with viewing foreign characters in Firefox. For example, examining a page in Wikipedia with Chinese characters

Add the character set to your computer. For example,
(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.