On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 21:58, Tom wrote: > As you might have read in another of my posts, I've got a pretty > "beautiful" font-environment going. However, I'm completely stuck with > American characters -- everybody's accent-e, umlaut-u, and of course > chinese just shows up as ? in Mutt in gnome-terminal, and Mozilla the > slightest unusual character shows up as a character-code-picture. > > During locales setup I generate en_US ISO-8859-1 and en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8, > and set my default to "en_US". > > I'm a dumb american so I haven't done anything else special. I want to > be able to see western european characters; I can't read chinese or > hebrew but it would be nice to at least see it. Is there anything > obvious and simple I can do to "turn on" such features? > The most obvious... Did you install any chinese fonts? Another question is, are you running gnome 1 or gnome2? gnome2's handling of international characters is pretty nice. And I haven't had problems with mozilla handling foreign fonts recently. More problems with encoding. Sometimes you have to let it know what the page is encoded with. Good luck. Marshal
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