UTF-8 with geany and seamonkey

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UTF-8 with geany and seamonkey

#1 Post by vanchutr »

I'used Puppy2.10 but I can't see the asian letter in seamonkey browser or read it in geany editor.
Any one give me some instructions. Thanks

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#2 Post by Lobster »

trying to add this

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Empowerment∞ 
caused this:
An error occurred while converting the file from UTF-8 in "ISO-8859-1". The file remains unsaved.
Error message: Invalid byte sequence in conversion input
:oops:

I think that is related all I can say is better support for some scripts
is coming in 2.13
New International DejaVu fonts support Greek, Hebrew, Vietnamese, Arabic etc main language groups

http://puppylinux.org/wikka/Puppy213
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#3 Post by MU »

when you save a file (save as) you have a option to save it as UTF-8 file that you must select.

Be shure to use a UTF-font in geanys options for the editor-window.
The font bitstream vera supports only some characters (it is in Puppy 2.12).
More characters are supported by DejaVu:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... vu&t=13242

For the tamil language you might need other fonts, there also are special editors like akaram for it.

In seamonkey set DejaVu as standard-font in the preferences.

Mark

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UTF-8 in seamonkey

#4 Post by vanchutr »

Thank you MU.
Your instructions are clear.

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#5 Post by canbyte »

I'm getting Lobster's error messge and was glad to find this thread.

Mu's instructions are still clear except that when resaving old files that have been modified, I didn't see a format option.

So instead, I closed all files after making necessary changes, went to edit/preferences/files/encoding and selected the utf-8 as default. Then, for re-opening existing files, selected the next box - 'use fixed encoding when opening non-Unicode files'. A hovering dialog suggests "usually not needed" but presumably all your files were previously saved in the Western ISO encoding. I'll be giving this a try plus the suggested browser font and will advise if there are problems.

Note that this may also happen when pasting text generated by word documents as word now has a code for '...'. I wish Bill would leave well enough alone!
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