Firefox and unicode charactorsHe
 

Hello,

firefox 17.x in my centos 5 does not display unicode charactors. All i see is boxes. PLease help me to solve this issue.

THank you

In FFx go to the View menu and then to the Character Encoding item. Click on Unicode (UTF-8).
ciao,
jdk

Hai mate,

this option already selected and still showing boxes only.
btw, this option is changing to site by site. when i viewing this website it auto switch to western iso.

i also tried auto view > char encoding> auto detect > universal. still same.

Follow the solutions mentioned here, they include creating a new profile and deleting cache.

sorry folks,
creating a new profile and clearing cash did not help.
so i just downloaded the ttf font (in my case it's tamil font) and just intstalled it into /usr/shares/fonts
an issued the following and now webpages are showing tamil font.
fc-cache <path-to-font-directory>

I checked the Mozilla site and Tamil is not one of the supported languages. That probably explains your difficulties.
jdk

Thank you buddy, thank you guys!!

When they say Firefox doesn't support Tamil, they mean it's not available with Tamil menus and messages. I doubt that they support Avar, but I've just loaded a Wikipedia page in that language!

Blocks means the wrong encoding or no suitable font available. Can you use Tamil with other applications?

Yah now i can view tamil pages and type in tamil on other applications like google search.