[plug] Iceweasel not showing other languages character

[Open Source.Lives]

Thanks Andrew,

I did a quick search in the Iceweasel help and located a link pointing to
the fix.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Multilingual_support_(East_Asian)


Now I just need to get the keyboard to allow me to enter in Asian
characters.

Cheers
Quan


On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 12:36 PM, Andrew Greig <agreig at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Quan,
>
> You shouldn't need to change preferences in Iceweasel. It sounds like you
> don't have the necessary fonts installed to display the Japanese and Chinese
> characters. Have a search through the package list for files named ttf-*
> that provide characters for those languages.
>
> Regarding Samba, you could either read their official Howto or the possibly
> out-of-date SMB Howto (http://tldp.org/HOWTO/SMB-HOWTO.html)
>
> Good luck
> Andrew
>
>
> On 30/10/09 05:04, Open Source.Lives <open.source.lives at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Pluggers,
>>
>> Signed up on this mailing list, but have not been posting much. So
>> helloooooooo to all members :)
>>
>> Just wondering if someone could help us out, as Iceweasel is not showing
>> the language characters when I am viewing other websites, like a Japanese or
>> Chinese website.
>>
>> I have gone into Iceweasel preferences and added the languages for the
>> above mention, but it with English as the first preference and the rest
>> below it, it still present itself as square blocks. When the above languages
>> is selected as first preference the websites presented itself correctly. But
>> when I type into the search field, I can only type in that language and not
>> in English.
>>
>> Am I looking at the correct place to fix this situation?
>>
>> As well, do anyone know where I can get information on setting up a
>> network between Linux & Windows? I have checked Samba, but trying to get my
>> head around the documentation.
>>
>> OS
>> 64 bit Debian 5.0.3
>>
>> Thanks for your help.
>>
>> Quan
>>
>>
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