[CentOS] Extended characters not working on CentOS

Tue Jul 29 21:05:20 UTC 2008
William L. Maltby <CentOS4Bill at triad.rr.com>

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
> <snip sig stuff>

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Bill