Locale/UTF8 problem in firefox

[Evan Leibovitch]

Hi Madison,

This may not be a real fix for your problem but it's one that I've had
to fight with in the past. At least it might offer a good place to
start, if you haven't ventured there already.

As Firefox uses neither KDE nor GNOME, it doesn' t know or use the font
defaults of your desktop; therefore it maintains its own settings of
what fonts and encodings to use. This offers the possibility a Unicode
string that displays fine using other GUI apps (which respect your
desktop's settings) may not render properly within Mozilla (and its
components; Firefox, Thunderbird, etc). They might not be using the same
fonts. It's even possible that your Firefox isn't set up to use Unicode.

Have a look in Edit -> Preferences -> Content -> Fonts & Colors ->
Advanced ... on mine the default encoding is not unicode.

Another possibility might be to add support for other languages under
Edit -> Preferences -> Advanced -> General -> Languages.

HTH,

- Evan

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