On 10/03/2010 01:53 PM, Keith Roberts informed us:

On Sun, 3 Oct 2010, Frank Cox wrote:

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To: CentOS mailing listcentos@centos.org From: Frank Coxtheatre@sasktel.net Subject: Re: [CentOS] No Chinese character set in Firefox

On Sun, 2010-10-03 at 18:28 +0100, Keith Roberts wrote:

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I'm running Centos 5.5 and have recently lost my chines characters in Firefox.

Just get a lot of wierd looking boxex now, look like dominos.

Firefox used to come with a bazillion language packs included in the firefox rpm.

Now those language packs are not included any more.

You can download them from the mozilla website if you need them.

I've visited the Mozilla site, but cannot find the Chinese language pack to install it :(

Regards,

Keith

I just now entered the command:

# yum install "@Chinese Support"

and was greeted with this list of crap:

Dependencies Resolved

================================================================================================================= Package Arch Version Repository Size ================================================================================================================= Installing: Deployment_Guide-zh-CN noarch 5.2-11.el5.centos base 2.2 M Deployment_Guide-zh-TW noarch 5.2-11.el5.centos base 2.9 M fonts-chinese noarch 3.02-12.el5 base 24 M kde-i18n-Chinese noarch 1:3.5.4-1 base 2.1 M kde-i18n-Chinese-Big5 noarch 1:3.5.4-1 base 2.2 M lv i386 4.51-8.1 base 423 k openoffice.org-langpack-zh_CN i386 1:3.1.1-19.5.el5_5.1 updates 15 M openoffice.org-langpack-zh_TW i386 1:3.1.1-19.5.el5_5.1 updates 16 M scim-bridge-gtk i386 0.4.5-9.el5 base 37 k scim-chewing i386 0.3.1-11.el5 base 62 k scim-chinese-standard i386 0.0.2-1.el5 base 87 k scim-pinyin i386 0.5.91-16.el5 base 2.3 M scim-qtimm i386 0.9.4-5 base 63 k scim-tables-chinese i386 0.5.6-7 base 6.2 M stardict i386 2.4.5-5 base 833 k Installing for dependencies: libchewing i386 0.3.0-8.el5 base 2.8 M scim i386 1.4.4-41.el5 base 517 k scim-bridge i386 0.4.5-9.el5 base 109 k scim-libs i386 1.4.4-41.el5 base 453 k scim-tables i386 0.5.6-7 base 346 k

Transaction Summary ================================================================================================================= Install 20 Package(s) Upgrade 0 Package(s)

Total download size: 79 M Is this ok [y/N]: n Exiting on user Command Complete!

...which I'm not too interested in installing on top of all the other useless stuff I have. BUT it seems like this might be worth a try if I was interested in readin', writin' and cipherin' in Chinese.