CentOS - Jul 2008 - Extended characters not working on CentOS

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
> <snip sig stuff>
-- 
Bill

On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 3:49 PM, MHR <mhullrich at 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.

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

-- 
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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.

-- 
Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <ivazqueznet at gmail.com>

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