xiaojiang216 Posted April 16, 2008 at 02:26 AM Report Share Posted April 16, 2008 at 02:26 AM 大家好, I'm having some trouble with certain character encodings on my Mac in Firefox. I can view most Chinese websites without any problem, but there are certain websites that don't display the characters properly. (i.e.: www.people.cn) This is what it looks like: I have the 字符编号 set to 用户定义... any ideas what the problem could be? There aren't any problems on Safari, but I use Chinese-pera-kun a lot and other add-ons... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
imron Posted April 16, 2008 at 02:56 AM Report Share Posted April 16, 2008 at 02:56 AM I remember having a similar problem when I first got my Mac, and I seem to recall that it's related to the default Chinese font used by firefox. Try going into the options and changing the font used for chinese. I remember also that I ended up disabling one of the fonts at the system level so it would never be chosen. When I get home later today, I'll check which one it was. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xiaojiang216 Posted April 16, 2008 at 09:49 PM Author Report Share Posted April 16, 2008 at 09:49 PM I've tried to change the fonts, and it seems that the problem persists. I tried fonts like 宋体 and they didn't work either. Thank you for your help once again, imron! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest yangbin Posted April 17, 2008 at 01:07 AM Report Share Posted April 17, 2008 at 01:07 AM I have the same problem! I have no idea of what to do. I tried to download firefox in chinese, but nothing changed. I downloaded other software but that changed nothing! So for this kind of website im obliged to use safari. But, i do not like it at all! Love firefox! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
imron Posted April 17, 2008 at 01:21 AM Report Share Posted April 17, 2008 at 01:21 AM I remember having the exact same problem, but I can't for the life of me remember the detailed steps for how I solved it, but I'm almost 100% sure it was a font problem. I thought I'd also posted something about it here, but I can't seem to find anything. Anyway, I checked my computer and can't find which font I disabled (maybe I deleted it instead), however the font that Firefox currently uses on my Mac is "Hei". What happens if you set this font and then reload the page? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xiaojiang216 Posted April 17, 2008 at 02:07 AM Author Report Share Posted April 17, 2008 at 02:07 AM I think Firefox has had the font set to Hei as a default already... it seems to make no difference Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
imron Posted April 17, 2008 at 03:26 AM Report Share Posted April 17, 2008 at 03:26 AM Unfortunately, I fixed the problem on my Mac so well that I now can't reproduce it again. This thread seems to suggest that the problem is fixed in the firefox 3 beta. It also suggests that disabling the PMingLiu and SimSun fonts can fix the problem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xiaojiang216 Posted April 17, 2008 at 07:08 PM Author Report Share Posted April 17, 2008 at 07:08 PM Just downloaded Firefox 3 Beta, and.... voila! No problems! Now I just need to get used to the new Safari-looking layout Edit: OH NO! ChinesePera-kun and my other 扩展组件 don't work with the beta version! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
imron Posted April 18, 2008 at 01:05 AM Report Share Posted April 18, 2008 at 01:05 AM Did you try disabling the fonts mentioned in that thread? My firefox 2.0 works fine, so there's a way to fix it up somehow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest yangbin Posted April 18, 2008 at 08:22 AM Report Share Posted April 18, 2008 at 08:22 AM Yeah same for me! firefox 3 is working fine, however Chinese Perapera-kun doesn't work! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xiaojiang216 Posted April 18, 2008 at 10:46 PM Author Report Share Posted April 18, 2008 at 10:46 PM Hey! I did it! Thanks, imron! I found PMingLiu and clicked and dragged it to the Disabled Fonts folder. Now it works! Thanks for your help! Now I can use my precious 扩展组件! Everyone that was coping with the beta version should just try disabling the fonts - it works! Thanks again, imron! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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