On 22/06/14 22:59, steve-ALUG@hst.me.uk wrote:
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.
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
That was something I did sometime ago, actually. Here are two examples then:
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Table_des_caract%C3%A8res_Unicode/UA720
http://superuser.com/questions/693552/some-unicode-characters-work-everywher...
The character map in Ubuntu has never shown the full range of options either. Some of the other issues are with what are probably 'webdings'. (Not all though. I do have 'dingbats', for example.)
Bev.