Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2007 21:06:53 -0600 From: David J Brooks <freysman@comcast.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, questions@freebsd.org, svein.h@lvor.halvorsen.cc Subject: Re: UTF-8 in Opera/FreeBSD Message-ID: <200712242106.54215.freysman@comcast.net> In-Reply-To: <20071225015900.GA44779@glitch.rwxrwxrwx.net> References: <476EA7CE.9040705@lvor.halvorsen.cc> <20071225015900.GA44779@glitch.rwxrwxrwx.net>
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On Monday 24 December 2007 07:59:00 pm Martin Tournoij wrote: > On Sun 23 Dec 2007 19:12, Svein Halvor Halvorsen wrote: > > I'm switching to UTF-8, and everything seems to work flawlessly, > > except for Opera. If I type one of the norwegian letters =E6=F8=E5 into= a > > text input box all I get is a square box. If I type backspace over > > it, it gets converted to a questionmark on the first stroke of > > backspace, and deleted on the second. If I copy the square box into > > another program, the propper letter is paced. > > The problem is that the font you're using doesn't support the > character(s) you want to type. > You'll have to change the font in the opera preferences dialog, I > think the bitstream family supports most UTF-8 fonts. > > This site may be useful in testing: > http://people.w3.org/rishida/scripts/uniview/ The DejaVu font set is based on BitstreamVera and supports an even wider ra= nge=20 of Unicode characters. /usr/ports/x11-fonts/dejavu David =2D-=20 This message is a stern warning of things to come.
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