Hi All, On Mar 08 2007, H.S. wrote: > > Hello, > > In Debian Etch Mozilla browser (Iceape), I notice that sometimes > accented characters are not displayed properly. They are shown as > question marks in black diamonds. For example, on this web page (CNN): > http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1597226,00.html?cnn=yes > > I see this "or his prot???g???s". I assume the last word is protege with > accents on the e's. How do I find out what I am missing to have these > characters shown properly? Maybe a font? My default locale is > en_CA.UTF-8 and many of the international languages are shown properly. > I even see accents properly on this web page: > http://www.jw-stumpel.nl/stestu.html
I've got the same basic problem with just about every tool I use, notably my email client mutt. Other versions of linux have somehow automatically done the right thing - for the European ISO standard at least (I forget the precise number), and their version of emacs would also successfully cut and paste non-US-character text, and asked me what encoding I preferred to use. Debian hasn't done the right thing since sarge - I don't remember for sure whether woody worked right, or whether my last good experience was on redhat - and I've had no luck whatsoever finding documentation or a FAQ that actually corresponded to anything real and workable. (Don't tell me to process 'locales' that don't exist on my system, without at least giving me a clue what package might contain them - or how to create my own - given that I've installed every relevant-seeming package for every language I want to be able to read.) Etch _claimed_ to default to UTF-8 - not my preference, but any consistent and working setup is better than nothing - and I need to check whether _that_ encoding actually works. (How can I find some text that's definitely encoded in that format?) But what I want is the ability to read anything. Well, anything in any European language, with emphasis on french, german, and icelandic, plus a few related dead languages.) Using a windows XP box for all my non-english language work is *not* making me happy. -- Arlie (Arlie Stephens [EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
