Re: browser display of accented characters

Juha Tuuna <juha.tuuna@xxxxxx> writes:

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.

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)

Thanks for the suggestion. When setting up debian-etch, my intent was
to do LANG=en_US.ISO-8859-15, but for some reason I ended up only with
en_US.UTF-8. Don't know why I chose that.

In fiddling with this, I discovered that if I run dpkg-reconfigure as
sudo ($ sudo dpkg-reconfiogure locale), it fails (perl: waring:
Setting locale failed). Turns out that I had to do it from a root
command line ($ su, etc.)

Now I have en_US as my locale, but the problem displaying accented
characters in my browser still persists. I restarted the browser, but
perhaps may have to log out for the change in locales to take
effect. I can't log out while writing this message, and, besides, I
had assumed that the value of Locale only affected the user interface,
not the display of characters.

--

Haines Brown, KB1GRM





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