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vanchutr · Joined: 05 Aug 2006 Posts: 432

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

Lobster

trying to add this

MU · Posted: Tue 19 Dec 2006, 07:14 Post subject:

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/viewtopic.php?highlight=dejavu&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

vanchutr · Joined: 05 Aug 2006 Posts: 432

Thank you MU.
Your instructions are clear.

canbyte · Joined: 10 Jan 2009 Posts: 266 Location: Hamilton, Canada

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!