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Re: Unicode not getting displayed properly on some webpages in Debian 8.0



On Sat, May 2, 2015 at 12:51 PM, Avinash Sonawane <rootkea@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, May 2, 2015 at 12:42 PM, Avinash Sonawane <rootkea@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello. I am using Jessie.
>>
>> Whenever I try to open some webpages I can not help but notice that
>> Unicode characters are not getting displayed correctly.
>>
>> I tried Iceweasel & Chromium. Both showing the same weird characters.
>> http://i.imgur.com/MX92Hrs.png?1 (Please have a look at "Google.co.in
>> offered in : ...")
>>
>> The reason I think this is related to Debian 8.0 is because untill
>> yesterday I was using Ubuntu and I could easily see all those Unicode
>> characters properly on the same webpage using Chromium and Firefox.
>>
>> Do I need to install any Unicode font or something?

After a bit searching on the web I found out that the package unifont
contains most of the Unicode characters so I installed it.

Now the same webpage looks like this. http://i.imgur.com/diUnacn.png?1
which is better than the earlier one but still incorrect (nothing like
I had on Ubuntu by default)

Any suggestions?

-- 
Avinash Sonawane (RootKea)
PICT, Pune
http://www.rootkea.wordpress.com


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