Strange Font Symbols

Neoltlink · 04-14-2006, 02:30 PM

For some reason, these things started popping up in several pages I visit(and in all oriental and cyrillic characters).
http://img522.imageshack.us/img522/8959/encode4dl.jpg
Also, sometimes a question mark will be in place of the apostrophe or something, when I save a text document and open it later.
In firefox, the encoding is Unicode-utf8. in KWrite/KEdit, I can't change it because it just goes back to the Western ISO-8856-1. Any ideas?

KDE 3.4.1
Slackware 10.2
Also, I looked at the other thread, but I don't have a windows installation to get the .ttf fonts from.

Alien_Hominid · 04-15-2006, 01:53 AM

What is your LANG variable?

Neoltlink · 04-15-2006, 12:33 PM

en_US

I'm thinking that I need to change it to en_US.UTF-8 or something, but I don't know where that file is to change it. Not sure though.

Neoltlink · 04-16-2006, 01:19 PM

Bump...anybody?

dive · 04-16-2006, 02:04 PM

You can change LANG by editing /etc/profile.d/lang.sh and edit the 'export LANG=' line. Then logout and back in.

Neoltlink · 04-16-2006, 04:31 PM

Edit: Nevermind. it's fixed. Thanks for your help.

MS3FGX · 04-16-2006, 05:09 PM

I have had this exact problem, mind telling us how you fixed it?

ateam · 04-16-2006, 07:49 PM

I get these characters now and then, so yeah, telling us how you fixed it would be helpful

Neoltlink · 04-16-2006, 08:52 PM

I just downloaded the TTF fonts, put them in the /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/ directory. Then changed the LANG variable to en_us.UTF-8 by editing /etc/profile.d/lang/sh.