On 22/06/14 12:37, Bev Nicolson wrote:
Not a huge technical challenge for you but something I find a tiny bit tedious. In Firefox, I can see some special characters or graphics but others are just squares with numbers or diamonds with a question mark inside. I've tried using a font with a bigger file (so more characters to pick from) but that hasn't solved it. Is it a unicode problem? Or something else entirely? (Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, Firefox 26.0) Is there something in Synaptic I need to install? etc etc.
A stab in the dark here: Many websites assume that they're going to be shown on a Windows machine, or a Mac. They may assume a set of installed fonts, that you may not have. They *should* work if the specific fonts aren't installed, but some don't.
You could try installing the package "ttf-mscorefonts-installer" - This installs the "core" set of Windows fonts. Try this and see if it works any better.
If it doesn't, post a link to a website that doesn't work and we may be able to see if it doesn't work for us and what to do about it.
Steve