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Unicode and Firefox

Discussion in 'Techno-Magic' started by Ofelix, Jan 29, 2006.

  1. Ofelix

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    I'm using firefox, and when I visit some pages, mainly wikipedia, I'm having trouble seeing other characters than latin (greek, russian, chinese etc) All I see are ?????s. It's really annoying, when I wanted to get the unicode necessery, I've download a file from microsoft's website, but it told me since I don't have ms office XP, I can't install it, why?

    I'm using open office by the way.
     
    Ofelix, Jan 29, 2006
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    Open Office might be the problem. I have MS Office and have no problems seeing any characters in Firefox.

    There may be a plugin somewhere.
     
    Rastor, Jan 29, 2006
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    I don't think so, because I had OOo at one point and it made no difference. Even though some guides suggest that you add some languages from the language-menu, it doesn't have any effect either. Maybe we don't have the fonts or something, but I guess this feature just has been overlooked by the Firefox developers.
     
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    It has the language possibility yes, but it is not automatic.
    Every time you encounter a page you can't read you should switch it by the hand the character encoding.
    That is possble by going to View---> Character enconding.
    There you can enable auto detect for one language, or choose a different language than the one you use (better yet codepage or fonts if you understand this better).
     
    Mithrantir, Feb 3, 2006
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