Re: browser display of accented characters
Juha Tuuna <juha.tuuna@utu.fi> writes:
> 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.
> Looks like a UTF-8 problem. ä etc are UTF-8 characters and perhaps you're
> using some ISO-8859-X encoding.
> try as root:
> dpkg-reconfigure locales
> select the locales you need and set the system default.
> See also /etc/environment
> http://www.infodrom.org/Debian/doc/maint/Maintenance-sysadmin.html
> (5.4 Systemwide environment configuration and forward)
Thanks for the suggestion. When setting up debian-etch, my intent was
to do LANG=en_US.ISO-8859-15, but for some reason I ended up only with
en_US.UTF-8. Don't know why I chose that.
In fiddling with this, I discovered that if I run dpkg-reconfigure as
sudo ($ sudo dpkg-reconfiogure locale), it fails (perl: waring:
Setting locale failed). Turns out that I had to do it from a root
command line ($ su, etc.)
Now I have en_US as my locale, but the problem displaying accented
characters in my browser still persists. I restarted the browser, but
perhaps may have to log out for the change in locales to take
effect. I can't log out while writing this message, and, besides, I
had assumed that the value of Locale only affected the user interface,
not the display of characters.
--
Haines Brown, KB1GRM
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