Re: browser display of accented characters

On Wednesday, 22. August 2007 13:29, Haines Brown wrote:
I'm not sure when this problem came up, but perhaps when I upgraded to
etch. Put simply, my browsers no longer can display accented
characters.

For example, I create a little test file with a and u umlaut and e
ecute:

This is a test
ä ü é

Xterm can display them, but in galeon and iceweasal they are broken:

This is a test
ä ü é

I try to use the browser defaults, and the default for both browsers
is "serif". I'm not sure what my system interprets that as (Times New
Roman?), but I'd assume it is with a font that supports normal
accented characters.

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Haines Brown, KB1GRM
Looks like a UTF-8 problem. ä etc are UTF-8 characters and perhaps you're
using some ISO-8859-X encoding.
try as root:
dpkg-reconfigure locales
select the locales you need and set the system default.
See also /etc/environment
http://www.infodrom.org/Debian/doc/maint/Maintenance-sysadmin.html
(5.4 Systemwide environment configuration and forward)

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