Weird characters appearing on webpages (Firefox)

Stretch · Post by **Stretch** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 11:15 am

I am seeing quite a lot of strange characters on my webpages. I think it is something to do with language settings? For example:

Sony Cmteh20Dab Dab/Fm Micro System.

Free �5 gift voucher with this purchase

54% off
was �129.79
now �59.89

(the weird symbol should be a Â£).

The strange thing is, other webpages will display the Â£ properly.

carlos · Post by **carlos** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 11:25 am

Do you have a link to the web page?

Chances are you have the wrong character encoding. You should try utf-8, you might have western iso-8859 set.

It will be under the view>character encoding menu of firefox.

Stretch · Post by **Stretch** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 11:29 am

Thanks Carlos! I needed to chose ISO-8859-15

EDIT: now how can I change these settings in Gnome, as I see some strange characters in some apps also?

carlos · Post by **carlos** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 11:53 am

Hmm that I'm not sure about, hopefully somebody can chime in for ya.

Husse · Post by **Husse** » Sun Sep 23, 2007 12:31 pm

I answered this recently - well mid july - and had to search quite a bit for the answer
You set the locale without changing the language in a terminal with

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localedef

To find out how use the manual

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man localedef

You certainly have to be root for this (use sudo)
and it's always good to look at the manual - man whatever