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Re: browser display of accented characters



"Douglas A. Tutty" <dtutty@porchlight.ca> writes:

> 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.

Thanks, Doug, that fixed the problem, although I still don't
understand why. If the browser is set to display ISO-8859-1, that
character set (and I suppose the default "serif" font) includes
accented characters, and so I don't understand why the change to UTF-8
was needed. 

I also still have problems with # dpkg-reconfigure locals. When I run
this command, I find that en-US ISO-8859-1 is selected, and so I
accept it (I tried both with and without defining the default
locale). When I log out/in, I find that the $ locale command tells me
I'm still using en_US.UTF-8. 
 
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       Haines Brown, KB1GRM

	 
        



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