A friend of mine here at work pointed me at this web page www.fhlcell.org where there are a lot of Chinese characters on the page.
Interestingly enough, on my CentOS 5.2 system, with both Seamoneky 1.1.11 and Firefox 3.0, we were unable to get the characters to display properly (they showed up as the little four number boxes instead).
However, on his Ubuntu system, using Firefox, they displayed just fine. Also, I just tested it in Win XP and both Seamonkey 1.1.11 and IE display it correctly.
What's going on?
mhr
On Tue, 2008-07-29 at 13:49 -0700, MHR wrote:
A friend of mine here at work pointed me at this web page www.fhlcell.org where there are a lot of Chinese characters on the page.
Interestingly enough, on my CentOS 5.2 system, with both Seamoneky 1.1.11 and Firefox 3.0, we were unable to get the characters to display properly (they showed up as the little four number boxes instead).
However, on his Ubuntu system, using Firefox, they displayed just fine. Also, I just tested it in Win XP and both Seamonkey 1.1.11 and IE display it correctly.
What's going on?
I presume you need to load extensions that handle the characters. When I set up FF 3, there were *many* extensions relating to languages.
I can't help beyond that.
mhr
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On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 3:49 PM, MHR mhullrich@gmail.com wrote:
A friend of mine here at work pointed me at this web page www.fhlcell.org where there are a lot of Chinese characters on the page.
Interestingly enough, on my CentOS 5.2 system, with both Seamoneky 1.1.11 and Firefox 3.0, we were unable to get the characters to display properly (they showed up as the little four number boxes instead).
However, on his Ubuntu system, using Firefox, they displayed just fine. Also, I just tested it in Win XP and both Seamonkey 1.1.11 and IE display it correctly.
What's going on?
In FF3: Tools > Add Ons > Languages, there are two (2) Language Packs for Chinese. If you and/or your friend can read Chinese, maybe one of those will work.
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 2:54 PM, Lanny Marcus lmmailinglists@gmail.com wrote:
In FF3: Tools > Add Ons > Languages, there are two (2) Language Packs for Chinese. If you and/or your friend can read Chinese, maybe one of those will work.
Already loaded, and no....
Interestingly enough, in Seamonkey, on both Windows and CentOS, the character encoding shows up as Chinese Traditional (Big 5), but it just doesn't seem to display properly on CentOS.
???
mhr
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 5:01 PM, MHR mhullrich@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 2:54 PM, Lanny Marcus lmmailinglists@gmail.com wrote:
In FF3: Tools > Add Ons > Languages, there are two (2) Language Packs for Chinese. If you and/or your friend can read Chinese, maybe one of those will work.
Already loaded, and no....
Interestingly enough, in Seamonkey, on both Windows and CentOS, the character encoding shows up as Chinese Traditional (Big 5), but it just doesn't seem to display properly on CentOS.
???
Hmmm. Getting more interesting. Are you using 65 bit or 32 bit Firefox?
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 5:26 PM, Lanny Marcus lmmailinglists@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 5:01 PM, MHR mhullrich@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 2:54 PM, Lanny Marcus lmmailinglists@gmail.com wrote:
In FF3: Tools > Add Ons > Languages, there are two (2) Language Packs for Chinese. If you and/or your friend can read Chinese, maybe one of those will work.
Already loaded, and no....
Interestingly enough, in Seamonkey, on both Windows and CentOS, the character encoding shows up as Chinese Traditional (Big 5), but it just doesn't seem to display properly on CentOS.
???
Hmmm. Getting more interesting. Are you using 65 bit or 32 bit Firefox?
Correction: Make that 64 bit or 32 bit? I clicked on Send before I saw my typo.
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 3:27 PM, Lanny Marcus lmmailinglists@gmail.com wrote:
Correction: Make that 64 bit or 32 bit? I clicked on Send before I saw my typo.
32 bit here - haven't tried it at home yet....
mhr
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 5:01 PM, MHR mhullrich@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 2:54 PM, Lanny Marcus lmmailinglists@gmail.com wrote:
In FF3: Tools > Add Ons > Languages, there are two (2) Language Packs for Chinese. If you and/or your friend can read Chinese, maybe one of those will work.
Already loaded, and no....
Interestingly enough, in Seamonkey, on both Windows and CentOS, the character encoding shows up as Chinese Traditional (Big 5), but it just doesn't seem to display properly on CentOS.
I just loaded both of the Chinese language pack add ons for FF3 (32 bit) and restarted FF3.. It does not work for me either. I wonder if there is somewhere that something else needs to be configured, for this to work on CentOS 5.2? What are the differences, with respect to other languages, between Firefox and SeaMonkey? Some configuration setting?
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 3:33 PM, Lanny Marcus lmmailinglists@gmail.com wrote:
I just loaded both of the Chinese language pack add ons for FF3 (32 bit) and restarted FF3.. It does not work for me either. I wonder if there is somewhere that something else needs to be configured, for this to work on CentOS 5.2? What are the differences, with respect to other languages, between Firefox and SeaMonkey? Some configuration setting?
I don't know that one....
mhr
Already loaded, and no....
Interestingly enough, in Seamonkey, on both Windows and CentOS, the character encoding shows up as Chinese Traditional (Big 5), but it just doesn't seem to display properly on CentOS.
???
Alex said it right, you need to do: yum install fonts-chinese
Works fine for me here :)
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 8:54 PM, D Steward dsteward@internode.on.net wrote:
Already loaded, and no....
Interestingly enough, in Seamonkey, on both Windows and CentOS, the character encoding shows up as Chinese Traditional (Big 5), but it just doesn't seem to display properly on CentOS.
???
Alex said it right, you need to do: yum install fonts-chinese
Works fine for me here :)
Works fine at home now - I'll verify at work tomorrow.
Thanks!
mhr
Mhr wrote on Tue, 29 Jul 2008 13:49:36 -0700:
What's going on?
You need a font that supports this character-set: big5. (View Source, see meta tags.)
Kai
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 3:31 PM, Kai Schaetzl maillists@conactive.com wrote:
You need a font that supports this character-set: big5. (View Source, see meta tags.)
Is that a system font or a browser font? Either way, where do I get one? Can I import something from Windows to do that (since it works in Windows)?
Thanks.
mhr
On Tue, 29 Jul 2008 16:09:05 -0700 MHR mhullrich@gmail.com took out a #2 pencil and scribbled:
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 3:31 PM, Kai Schaetzl maillists@conactive.com wrote:
You need a font that supports this character-set: big5. (View Source, see meta tags.)
Is that a system font or a browser font? Either way, where do I get one? Can I import something from Windows to do that (since it works in Windows)?
Thanks.
mhr
I believe you are looking for:
yum install fonts-chinese
I read chinese on a regular basis. I also type in Chinese so I have all the scim stuff installed. But I'm fairly certain you're looking to have those fonts installed.
Your link shows up in totality for me. Does that help?
HTH
Alex White
On Tue, 2008-07-29 at 13:49 -0700, MHR wrote:
A friend of mine here at work pointed me at this web page www.fhlcell.org where there are a lot of Chinese characters on the page.
Interestingly enough, on my CentOS 5.2 system, with both Seamoneky 1.1.11 and Firefox 3.0, we were unable to get the characters to display properly (they showed up as the little four number boxes instead).
The numbered boxes mean that fontconfig was unable to find a font that provided that glyph.
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