On Wednesday, 22. August 2007 13:29, Haines Brown wrote: > I'm not sure when this problem came up, but perhaps when I upgraded to > etch. Put simply, my browsers no longer can display accented > characters. > > For example, I create a little test file with a and u umlaut and e > ecute: > > This is a test > ä ü é > > Xterm can display them, but in galeon and iceweasal they are broken: > > This is a test > ä ü é > > I try to use the browser defaults, and the default for both browsers > is "serif". I'm not sure what my system interprets that as (Times New > Roman?), but I'd assume it is with a font that supports normal > accented characters. > > -- > > Haines Brown, KB1GRM Looks like a UTF-8 problem. ä etc are UTF-8 characters and perhaps you're using some ISO-8859-X encoding. try as root: dpkg-reconfigure locales select the locales you need and set the system default. See also /etc/environment http://www.infodrom.org/Debian/doc/maint/Maintenance-sysadmin.html (5.4 Systemwide environment configuration and forward)
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