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Weird characters appearing on webpages (Firefox)
Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2007 11:15 am
by Stretch
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 £).
The strange thing is, other webpages will display the £ properly.
Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2007 11:25 am
by carlos
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.
Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2007 11:29 am
by Stretch
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?
Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2007 11:53 am
by carlos
Hmm that I'm not sure about, hopefully somebody can chime in for ya.
Posted: Sun Sep 23, 2007 12:31 pm
by Husse
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
To find out how use the manual
You certainly have to be root for this (use sudo)
and it's always good to look at the manual - man whatever
