Re: browser display of accented characters
On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 01:38:59PM +0300, Juha Tuuna wrote:
> On Wednesday, 22. August 2007 13:29, Haines Brown wrote:
> > I'm not sure when this problem came up, but perhaps when I upgraded to
> > etch. Put simply, my browsers no longer can display accented
> > characters.
> >
> > For example, I create a little test file with a and u umlaut and e
> > ecute:
> >
> > This is a test
> > ?? ?? ??
> >
> > Xterm can display them, but in galeon and iceweasal they are broken:
> >
> > This is a test
> > ???? ???? ????
> >
> > I try to use the browser defaults, and the default for both browsers
> > is "serif". I'm not sure what my system interprets that as (Times New
> > Roman?), but I'd assume it is with a font that supports normal
> > accented characters.
And then you _may_ need to tell the browser to use UTF-8
Doug.
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