Language Support Issue

AutoC · 01-31-2008, 02:39 AM

I basically need to use other languages in my fedora system.I did, control centre >regional and accesibility > keyboard layout >enable keyboard layouts and added the languages i needed.But still when i use the language,boxes appear instead of characters.help on this?

ophirg · 01-31-2008, 11:59 PM

there are two things you should watch

1. the font used to display the chars
2. the encoding of documents you read(for existing documents)

what applications do you use?
do you have the language fonts installed?