On 06-Jan-06 Chris Green wrote:
I'm just investigating a trip to Poland and thus I'm seeing lots of Polish web sites.
Firefox is making a right pigs ear of all the special Polish characters (basically lots of different sorts of accents).
It copes with French accents fine.
What do I need to do to get it to handle the Polish alphabet. I have a suspicion I need a character set that's something other than iso8859-1 but trying the only font offered for "Central European" (which was an iso8859-2) didn't help at all.
-- Chris Green (chris@areti.co.uk)
"Never ascribe to malice that which can be explained byincompetence."
The site would probably have been using either 8859-2 (which includes Polish, Czech, etc.) or using utf-* encoding (which is a totally different ballgame). Since 8859-2 didn't work, the chances are you would need to have utf-8 or similar installed on your machine. I don't know if firefox has the capability to handle this on its own, in which case you could simply (if it's available) install firefox's utf-8 support in firefox itself -- which would be a much simpler proporition than converting your machine to UTF!
Hoping this helps, Ted.
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