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#1 2007-02-08 04:57:03
- normc
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french accented chatacters
Every how and then I look at a page with accented characters, all I get is a ? form the character. Is there a font I can use that will show them correctly in fire fox.
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#2 2007-02-08 06:14:01
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Re: french accented chatacters
pacman -S ttf-bitstream-vera
These are the ones I use. You can also try ttf-dejavu
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#3 2007-02-08 21:34:27
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Re: french accented chatacters
I tried those no change.
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#4 2007-02-08 22:27:03
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Re: french accented chatacters
Did you changed the firefox preference to use these fonts?
Preference->Content->Fonts & Colors. Set it to one of the bitstream font. I use 'Bitstream vera sans'. I haven't done anything special to have the accented characters.
Also for character encoding, I use Western (ISO-8859-1). I think that affect how caracters are displayed.
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#5 2007-02-08 22:35:10
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Re: french accented chatacters
Did all that before changed to ISO-8859-1 still have a problem with this
http://genforum.genealogy.com/gauthier/ … /3355.html
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#6 2007-02-08 22:41:53
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Re: french accented chatacters
The accents are displayed fine here. Maybe you need ttf-ms-fonts
EDIT: I get the ? when I switch to the unicode encoding. Try with different encoding. Do you use utf8 on your sytem?
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#7 2007-02-08 23:33:45
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Re: french accented chatacters
I changed it to this, no change
LOCALE="ISO-8859-1"
This is the section in xorg.conf
RgbPath "/usr/share/X11/rgb"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/misc"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/TTF"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/Type1"
EndSection
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#8 2007-02-09 00:00:23
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Re: french accented chatacters
If this is from within Firefox (or other browser) you just have to change "View/Affichage" > Encodage > ISO8859-1 (or by country)
AFAIK you do not have to change system locale
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#9 2007-02-09 00:13:29
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Re: french accented chatacters
I just discovered it works in Opera and Konqueror.
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#10 2007-02-09 00:21:41
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Re: french accented chatacters
Good to hear that it works. I surely has nothing to do with the fonts. I do not think that there are any fonts in Arch that cannot display é and the like.
In Firefox, access the menu: View-->Character Encoding, choose Western (ISO-8859-1), then go there again and choose Auto-Detect-->Universal.
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#11 2007-02-09 00:38:17
- normc
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Re: french accented chatacters
Thanks that did it.
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