Possible to display foreign languages?

vincebs · 08-18-2004, 06:55 PM

Hello there,

I'm wondering whether it's possible for Linux (or more specifically, GNOME in Fedora Core 2) to display foreign languages without setting that language to the system language. Being a language-lover, I often run into web pages that are full of small boxes instead of the native language. I don't need to be able to input the language, I just want to be able to read it. There's nothing I can find in the kernel to enable it, enabling various codepages doesn't seem to do anything.

Thanks,

Vince

Tinkster · 08-18-2004, 07:11 PM

I've never tried it, but maybe if you just set your
browser to use UTF instead of ISO8859?

Cheers,
Tink

vincebs · 12-10-2004, 09:19 PM

Yes, but I have the same problem with text outside Mozilla. If I have a text file and it's not in the Latin or Cyrillic alphabets, I get garbage.

My kernel is compiled with the necessary codepages already, btw

SciYro · 12-11-2004, 04:30 AM

codepages are for m$ mainly, the nls in the kernel is mainly for the file system also ......

i had a simular problem, but when i installed some unicode fonts, everything showed up as it should .... i dont know how fedora would go about it, in gentoo i did "emerge unifont", but i cant seem to find the website they got it from (the recoded site isent working or closed down i think)

vincebs · 01-15-2005, 11:33 PM

aah, I solved the problem by finding the following RPMs:
ttfonts-zh_CN
ttfonts-zh_TW

Thanks for all your help