On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 11:44:21AM +0200, Stefan wrote: > On Tue, 19 Aug 2003, jlk wrote: > > j> I'm using Mozilla 1.4-2 under a linux/Debian 2.4.21. > j> > j> Sometimes I can browse web pages holding chinese characters without > j> any problem (like http://www.tigernt.com/cgi-bin/cedict.cgi) and > j> sometimes I cannot read them (like > j> http://ffii.org/archive/mails/cjk/2003/Jan/index.html). > j> > j> Does anyone know what's wrong with my configuration? > > the first webpage uses images (gifs) instead of fonts to display Chinese > characters (at least when I view it). The second webpage uses real fonts. > > I guess you have to download the correct fonts (from where?) and install > them first, before you can view the second webpage correctly. >
you need xfonts-intl-chinese xfonts-intl-chinese-big and tell mozilla to use chinese encoding if it doesn't detect it automagically: View -> Character Coding -> More -> East Asian -> Chinese* bye -- mattia :wq!
