In konqueror (kde 3.2.1), I can't display any special characters at all! Sometimes I can't even display apostrophes (depends on the page, and may have something to do with automatic encoding detection). Instead of special characters, I get empty squares. There have been a few times that instead of squares I get a sequence of characters, something like this: &XXX (I don't even know what character is supposed to be represented)
Firefox seems to handle a special characters a little better. It displays special characters from Esperanto, and seems to have no problem with apostrophes. I still get a lot of squares, but unlike Konqueror, the squares contain TINY little numbers or something inside of them. I also get the &XXX erro displayed as well (I vaguely remember learning about using sequences like this to display special characters in HTML)
I'd like for my browsers to be able to display as many characters as possible, asian, eastern european, etc. Could this be an X configuration problem? I uncommented a couple of lines from my XFREE86.conf that said something like "speedo" and "XTT", which I guessed had to do with fonts.
Here is an example of an error that I get:
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That was just one puzzling development in a film whose plot was regularly described as a Möbius strip by reviewers.
the page where I found this error is:
http://dir.salon.com/ent/movies/feat...sis/index.html
Interesting! I chose to preview this post before I sent it, and the error didn't happen. the character is represented correctily, it's an "o" with two dots above it. (keep in mind that this is the same instance of the same browser that didn't display the character correctly on that other page, konqueror, in another tab)
That leads me to believe that I can solve THAT character problem by disabling "encoding autodetection", and manually selecting the encoding option. I don't know what the correct encoding selection should be however.
Anyway, this is turning into the question that never ends. Does anybody know how to fix these problems?
