Re: configuring iceweasel fonts for debian documentation

[Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de>]

On 2011-05-15 19:04 +0200, Paul E Condon wrote:

> I'm reading 
>
> http://tldp.org/LDP/www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch01.en.html#_device_files
>
> IMHO, it is important to see what the author intended, but I think I am not.
>
> If this doesn't clear up your display problems with MC, see Section 9.6.6, “The terminal configuration”.
>
> The above line is a cut-and-paste from an iceweasel window into an
> emacs-lucid window. The line I see in emacs is slightly different from
> the line I see in iceweasel, but both suffer from what must be a
> configuration problem.  In particular just before and just after the
> string "The terminal configuration" there are characters that make
> sense only as a computer malfuntion.
>
> I'm running a fresh install of Squeeze with default graphical desktop,
> Gnome. If I did anything special, it was unintended. What do I do to
> get iceweasel to render this .html file correctly? 

View → Character Encoding → Unicode (UTF-8)

This is due to a misconfigured web server telling that the page is in
ISO-8859-1 when it's not.

Sven