how do i get firefox to display foreign languages correctly?

i dont have a specific one on my mind.


thankx

I was wondering this myself a couple of months back. It annoyed me that the Chinese, Korean and Japanese characters at the bottom of the news.google.com web site didn't display correctly.

You can go to View -> Character Encoding and play around with the different settings. That might help a bit.

I have also seen references to webfonts, which you might want to check out. I haven't tried them.

What finally fixed it for me was getting a set of the TTF fonts off of a Windows 2000 box and installing them in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/.

Install a Unicode font such as Bitstream Cyberbit or Arial Unicode. Make sure Fontconfig can see it.

Hussar obviously had Arial Unicode on his Win2K box.

Follow up if you need further instructions.

thankx

bitstream cyberbit has partially solved my problem.

only in some instances it does not produce the correct encoding. usually a silly letter.

i googled for Arial Unicode but no luck there.

i dont have a Win box at my disposal

im good for now.

thankx