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#1 2006-05-19 16:24:44
- unixguru
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unicode not fully supported in firefox
See these screenshots:-
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As you can see, opera seems to display correctly whereas firefox does not display eveything correctly. I have set UTF-8 as default encoding. Some other unicode sites also don't display properly. Also, some chm's i have don't display properly in gnochm with squares on some symbols but work properly with kchmviewer.
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#2 2006-05-19 17:38:02
- Gullible Jones
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Re: unicode not fully supported in firefox
Works fairly well for me with Galeon, although some (especially near the bottom) don't show up properly.
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#3 2006-05-19 18:49:49
- arooaroo
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Re: unicode not fully supported in firefox
I doubt it's a browser issue. I'd have thought it was a font issue.
Do check Firefox's default serif font and Opera's - they may look similiar but they are mostly likely different files altogether. (For all I know, Opera may bundle fonts with it - after all, fully unicode compliant fonts are generally expensive because of the vast number of "characters" that need to be designed).
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#4 2006-05-20 00:31:31
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Re: unicode not fully supported in firefox
Works fairly well for me with Galeon, although some (especially near the bottom) don't show up properly.
I get the same result as this with firefox.
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#5 2006-05-20 04:45:03
- yi
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Re: unicode not fully supported in firefox
Yes and this happens in thunderbird as well.
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#6 2006-05-20 04:57:45
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Re: unicode not fully supported in firefox
The font settings are same in both firefox and opera and i doubt opera bundles in unicode fonts as they are huge and the opera package is so small. I need to know how to setup firefox properly for unicode pages.
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#7 2006-05-20 08:49:01
- Gullible Jones
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Re: unicode not fully supported in firefox
Hmm... Unixguru, are you using MS TTF fonts?
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#8 2006-05-20 10:18:10
- Lone_Wolf
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Re: unicode not fully supported in firefox
I am using ms-ttf-fonts and get the same results as unixguru.
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#9 2006-05-20 10:53:41
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Re: unicode not fully supported in firefox
@Gullible Jones:
Yes, i use ms-fonts.
@all:
I finally figured out how unicode works. There is a awfully huge number of characters and there is not a single free font which supports all the characters(I am not sure about this, after extensive googling i cam to this conclusion.). But, luckily there are many fonts which support a considerable subset of full unicode. If you have ms-office installed, you'll find an arial unicode font installed, you can use that font and most of the symbols get displayed.
Two good resources:
http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/
http://titus.uni-frankfurt.de/indexe.htm
The second site also offers a unicode font, but the page is very slow. If anyone can find a universal unicode font, please let the world know!
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