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] 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] 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