Kin-man Chung wrote: > I have not installed Simplified Chinese locale in my system. I was > hoping I don't have to do that to be able to read pages in Chinese. > > When I access a page in Simplified Chinese using Internet explorer on > Windows, it detects the missing fonts and loads them automatically. > Wonder why Firefox cannot do the same. I know, this question should > be directed at Firefox developers instead. > > I'm willing to manually install the fonts if I know how. > > BTW, setting the fonts in Firefox per your instruction does not help. > > Anyways, I can still use my Window machine to read Chinese. :-( > Thanks for your help! > > -Kin-man > > Fu, Ning wrote: > >> Hi, Kin-man: >> >> If you have Simplified Chinese support installed, please login to >> Simplified Chinese locale(from the login screen click "Language") to see >> if the page can be displayed correctly. If you don't see an option for >> Simplified Chinese from the language list, you may need to add the >> locale using localeadm utility at first. >> If you still have the problem in Simplified Chinese locale, please try >> to set fonts in Firefox's preference->Content->Fonts&Colors->Advance as >> the picture I attached. >> >> -Harry >> >> >> >> >> >> >> Kin-man Chung wrote: >> >>> Fu, Ning wrote: >>> >>>> In what locale do you see the problem? And what is the font setting >>>> of Firefox for Chinese? >>>> Would you please provide the HTML file or the URL of the page(or some >>>> screen shots)? >>>> >>>> >>> I'm running Solaris 10 without any locale setting, which would be >>> defaulted to >>> en-us, I guess. The Firefox font is set to LucidasSans. I know that >>> is not a font >>> for Chinese, but how do you set one for Chinese? >>> >>> The problem exists for any page in GB2312, such as >>> http://www.people.com.cn >>> >>> -Kin-man >>> >>>> Regards, >>>> Harry >>>> >>>> Kin-man Chung wrote: >>>> >>>>> FireFox seems to have problems displaying a page encoded with >>>>> Simplified >>>>> Chinese characters, even when the encoding is explicitly set to GB2312. >>>>> Some characters are displayed OK, but some are displayed as a square, >>>>> with 4 numbers in their corner (which I suspect to be their unicode >>>>> values). Do I need to load some fonts from somewhere? >>>>> >>>>> BTW, I have Forefox 2.0.0.8 running in Solaris 10 (Sparc). >>>>> >>>>> Thanks in advance for the help. >>>>> >>>>> -Kin-man >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> desktop-discuss mailing list >>>>> desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org >>>>> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> > _______________________________________________ > desktop-discuss mailing list > desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org > Security gets in the way, and the Microsoft way gets in the way. All for progress, it'd be nice to see Firefox have the ability to fetch locales, fonts, etc. and stick them in .mozilla/firefox/profiles/xyz but so far that's not an intention. Self-update doesn't work on UNIX versions of Firefox due to permissions, so installing locales may or may not fix the issue, as Firefox itself probably uses its own bundled locale data. You can navigate the install dvd for OpenSolaris and find the packages based on their acronym, which will have something like han or cn or both in it, to name two, using pkgadd to get it going, yes this is not very easy or convienient, but the intention of UNIX based systems has limited the usability of the platform. All in the name of progress, what people have came to expect is more likely than not incorrect, but regardless user-specific installation of locales should be on the roadmap if it isn't already, but that's up to Mozilla since they bundle most of their functionality in the same package without relying on 3rd party libraries when they can help it, for user experience sake.
James
