Re: How to make Firefox to show unicode text?
Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote:
> On Thursday 09 November 2006 03:53, Shrini wrote:
>> Friends.
>>
>> I use Debian etch testing.
>>
>> I installed Firefox 2.
>>
>> It does not show any unicode tamil sites well.
>> It show only boses.
>>
>> How to make firefox to show unicode?
>
> FWIW, I went to
>
http://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AE%AE%E0%AF%81%E0%AE%A4%E0%AE%B1%E0%AF%8D_%E0%AE%AA%E0%AE%95%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%95%E0%AE%AE%E0%AF%8D
> and all the tamil characters are showing up nicely in firefox. I am using
> Debian Etch
>
> $dpkg -l firefox ttf-tamil-fonts
>
>
+++-==============-==============-============================================
> ii firefox 1.5.dfsg+1.5.0 lightweight web browser based on Mozilla
> ii ttf-tamil-font 0.4.7.1 Free TrueType fonts for the Tamil
> language
>
> hth
> raju
>
Hi Shrini,
I'm also using Debian Etch Firefox2. I went to the ta.wikipedia.org site and
the fonts displayed perfectly. I do not have ttf-tamil-fonts installed so I
don't think they are necessary. Firefox correctly selected the character
encoding Unicode (UTF-8).
Hope this helps,
Jonathan
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