Re: Viewing chinese characters with Mozilla

[Mattia Dongili <dongili@supereva.it>]

On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 11:44:21AM +0200, Stefan wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Aug 2003, jlk wrote:
> 
> j> I'm using Mozilla 1.4-2 under a linux/Debian 2.4.21.
> j>
> j> Sometimes I can browse web pages holding chinese characters without
> j> any problem (like http://www.tigernt.com/cgi-bin/cedict.cgi) and
> j> sometimes I cannot read them (like
> j> http://ffii.org/archive/mails/cjk/2003/Jan/index.html).
> j>
> j> Does anyone know what's wrong with my configuration?
> 
> the first webpage uses images (gifs) instead of fonts to display Chinese
> characters (at least when I view it). The second webpage uses real fonts.
> 
> I guess you have to download the correct fonts (from where?) and install
> them first, before you can view the second webpage correctly.
> 

you need 
xfonts-intl-chinese
xfonts-intl-chinese-big

and tell mozilla to use chinese encoding if it doesn't detect it
automagically: 
View -> Character Coding -> More -> East Asian -> Chinese*

bye
-- 
mattia
:wq!