Re: accented chars. shown as question marks in black diamonds in mozilla

[Florian Kulzer <florian.kulzer@icfo.es>]

On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 09:59:07 -0500, H.S. wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> In Debian Etch Mozilla browser (Iceape), I notice that sometimes 
> accented characters are not displayed properly. They are shown as 
> question marks in black diamonds. For example, on this web page (CNN):
> http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1597226,00.html?cnn=yes
>
> I see this "or his prot�g�s". I assume the last word is protege with 
> accents on the e's. How do I find out what I am missing to have these 
> characters shown properly? Maybe a font? My default locale is 
> en_CA.UTF-8 and many of the international languages are shown properly. 

Try to change to "View > Character Encoding > Western (ISO-8859-1)".
Your en_CA.UTF-8 would be able to display this page correctly if
time.com would bother to tell your browser that is uses ISO-8859-1.
I would have expected time.com to be more professional.

> I even see accents properly on this web page:
> http://www.jw-stumpel.nl/stestu.html

This page uses utf-8, so it matches your locale setting. It also
specifies the encoding in the source, so it should display correctly on
other locales as well, as long as they have the "é" character at all.
(The browser transcodes transparently if it knows what it is dealing
with.)

-- 
Regards,
          Florian