Re: [ubuntu-uk] playonlinux

2012-04-03 Thread paul sutton
On 03/04/12 15:20, Mark Fraser wrote: > > On Tuesday 03 Apr 2012 15:16:03 paul sutton wrote: > > > Hi Just tried to install the playonlinux package (ubuntu software centre > > > on 11.10) and it says it needs to remove bsd lpr/lpd line printing > > > spooling system I just wondered why, I cancelled

Re: [ubuntu-uk] playonlinux

2012-04-03 Thread Mark Fraser
On Tuesday 03 Apr 2012 15:16:03 paul sutton wrote: > Hi Just tried to install the playonlinux package (ubuntu software centre > on 11.10) and it says it needs to remove bsd lpr/lpd line printing > spooling system I just wondered why, I cancelled as i have only just got > my printer working, and don

[ubuntu-uk] playonlinux

2012-04-03 Thread paul sutton
Hi Just tried to install the playonlinux package (ubuntu software centre on 11.10) and it says it needs to remove bsd lpr/lpd line printing spooling system I just wondered why, I cancelled as i have only just got my printer working, and don't want it to stop working Paul -- -- -- http://ww

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Display problems with foreign characters in browsers.

2012-04-03 Thread Matthew Sturdy
On 3 April 2012 15:43, Colin Law wrote: > On 3 April 2012 13:40, Matthew Sturdy wrote: > > well, I have found a "solution" of sorts... I have deleted all the > > Helvetica .tff files from > > ~/.fonts/ > > /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ > > What did you have there and where did you get them from?

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Display problems with foreign characters in browsers.

2012-04-03 Thread Colin Law
On 3 April 2012 13:40, Matthew Sturdy wrote: > well, I have found a "solution" of sorts...  I have deleted all the > Helvetica .tff files from > > ~/.fonts/ > /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ > > Now the webpages skip past Helvetica and jump straight to the sans-serif > family of fonts (which are instal

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Display problems with foreign characters in browsers.

2012-04-03 Thread Matthew Sturdy
well, I have found a "solution" of sorts... I have deleted all the Helvetica .tff files from ~/.fonts/ /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ Now the webpages skip past Helvetica and jump straight to the sans-serif family of fonts (which are installed correctly). I will wait for the distribution update and

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Strange notification message on desktop

2012-04-03 Thread Colin Law
On 3 April 2012 11:18, David King wrote: > On 02/04/12 09:12, James Tait wrote: > > > I'm pretty sure it's not Ubuntu One.  The semantic part makes me think of > something like Zeitgeist, perhaps?  Which version of Ubuntu is this? > > JT > > > > I am running Ubuntu 10.10. The message appeared agai

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Strange notification message on desktop

2012-04-03 Thread Alan Pope
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/04/12 11:18, David King wrote: > I am running Ubuntu 10.10. The message appeared again, and it was > actually "Semantic Disk Storage", but the message gives me no clue > as to whether it is an error or a notification, or what it is > trying to t

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Display problems with foreign characters in browsers.

2012-04-03 Thread Matthew Sturdy
On 3 April 2012 13:03, bouncysteve wrote: > I don't have any problem in Firefox (11) with your example page, but there > is a problem in Chromium. > It seems that Chromium ignores the character encoding set in the page and > uses its own encoding. > Try setting the browser default encoding to UTF

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Display problems with foreign characters in browsers.

2012-04-03 Thread bouncysteve
I don't have any problem in Firefox (11) with your example page, but there is a problem in Chromium. It seems that Chromium ignores the character encoding set in the page and uses its own encoding. Try setting the browser default encoding to UTF-8 (NB This may reveal problems in other pages if th

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Strange notification message on desktop

2012-04-03 Thread David King
On 02/04/12 09:12, James Tait wrote: I'm pretty sure it's not Ubuntu One. The semantic part makes me think of something like Zeitgeist, perhaps? Which version of Ubuntu is this? JT I am running Ubuntu 10.10. The message appeared again, and it was actually "Semantic Disk Storage", but th

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Display problems with foreign characters in browsers.

2012-04-03 Thread Matthew Sturdy
On 3 April 2012 11:39, Colin Law wrote: > On 3 April 2012 10:28, Matthew Sturdy wrote: > > > So it is not in fact using the html entity. Having said that it does > look fine for me (Firefox 11.10 in Ubuntu 12.04). > I don't know what to suggest I am afraid. > > Thanks Colin! i have made a sim

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Display problems with foreign characters in browsers.

2012-04-03 Thread Colin Law
On 3 April 2012 10:28, Matthew Sturdy wrote: > > > On 3 April 2012 10:43, Colin Law wrote: >> >> On 3 April 2012 08:43, Matthew Sturdy wrote: >> >> Can you point us to a web page showing the problem and explain exactly >> what you see wrong? >> > > Sure, for example: http://sitmobile.com/index.h

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Display problems with foreign characters in browsers.

2012-04-03 Thread Matthew Sturdy
On 3 April 2012 10:43, Colin Law wrote: > On 3 April 2012 08:43, Matthew Sturdy wrote: > > Can you point us to a web page showing the problem and explain exactly > what you see wrong? > > Sure, for example: http://sitmobile.com/index.html?request_locale=po (change language to Portuguese if it is

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Display problems with foreign characters in browsers.

2012-04-03 Thread Colin Law
On 3 April 2012 08:43, Matthew Sturdy wrote: > Hi, > > I have had an issue for a while now with the display of certain characters > in both Firefox and Chrome on my laptop.  Example characters are: çõáú > > These are presented correctly in the webpages as HTML entities (ç > õ etc) > If I copy and

[ubuntu-uk] Display problems with foreign characters in browsers.

2012-04-03 Thread Matthew Sturdy
Hi, I have had an issue for a while now with the display of certain characters in both Firefox and Chrome on my laptop. Example characters are: çõáú These are presented correctly in the webpages as HTML entities (ç õ etc) If I copy and paste them to the terminal, or to a text entry field in the