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.
On Fri, 6 Jan 2006, 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.
The Mozilla I'm running offers two variants of "Baltic:" iso8859-4 and iso8859-13. Might these be what you're looking for?
On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 04:06:04PM +0000, Dan Hatton wrote:
On Fri, 6 Jan 2006, 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.
The Mozilla I'm running offers two variants of "Baltic:" iso8859-4 and iso8859-13. Might these be what you're looking for?
They could well be, I'll have a play when I get home on my Firefox there. The one here (where I'm seeing the problems) is running on Solaris and displaying on a PC X server so there are lots of possible things getting in the way.
On 06-Jan-06 Chris Green wrote:
On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 04:06:04PM +0000, Dan Hatton wrote:
On Fri, 6 Jan 2006, 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.
The Mozilla I'm running offers two variants of "Baltic:" iso8859-4 and iso8859-13. Might these be what you're looking for?
They could well be, I'll have a play when I get home on my Firefox there. The one here (where I'm seeing the problems) is running on Solaris and displaying on a PC X server so there are lots of possible things getting in the way.
"Baltic" is the wrong end of Europe! Iso8859-4 is also described as "Northern European" (though better described as a subset thereof), and includes support for the alphabets of
Estonian, the Baltic languages Latvian (Lettish) and Lithuanian, Greenlandic and Lappish
Most other true N European, and W European, languages are covered by iso8859-1:
French, Spanish, Catalan, Basque, Portuguese, Italian, Albanian, Rhaeto-Romanic, Dutch, German, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish, Faroese, Icelandic, Irish, Scottish, and English
-- but not Welsh!! (Find me a w with a ^ on it somewhere in the iso8859 series ???)
You're really after Central/East European, which is in 8859-2 and covers:
Czech, Hungarian, Polish, Romanian, Croatian, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian
so that's where to look for Polish (despite the fact that Gdansk is a Baltic port).
Cheers, Ted.
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On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 04:44:10PM -0000, Ted Harding wrote:
-- but not Welsh!! (Find me a w with a ^ on it somewhere in the iso8859 series ???)
You're really after Central/East European, which is in 8859-2 and covers:
Czech, Hungarian, Polish, Romanian, Croatian, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian
so that's where to look for Polish (despite the fact that Gdansk is a Baltic port).
Hmm, I tried an 8859-2 character set but that didn't help.
I suspect I'm being confused by Firefox's preferences settings though as the effects of changing fonts don't seem to take effect when or how one expects.
On 06-Jan-06 Chris Green wrote:
On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 04:06:04PM +0000, Dan Hatton wrote:
On Fri, 6 Jan 2006, 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.
The Mozilla I'm running offers two variants of "Baltic:" iso8859-4 and iso8859-13. Might these be what you're looking for?
They could well be, I'll have a play when I get home on my Firefox there. The one here (where I'm seeing the problems) is running on Solaris and displaying on a PC X server so there are lots of possible things getting in the way.
It just struck me -- maybe the displaying machine needs to be set up to use the Solaris machine as X font-server?
Cheers, Ted.
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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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