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vanchutr
Joined: 05 Aug 2006 Posts: 439
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Posted: Thu 02 Nov 2006, 07:10 Post subject:
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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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Lobster
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Joined: 04 May 2005 Posts: 15238 Location: Paradox Realm
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Posted: Tue 19 Dec 2006, 04:56 Post subject:
Geany Subject description: Save my text - Just work! [oops] |
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trying to add this
caused this:
Quote: | 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 |
I think that is related all I can say is better support for some scripts
is coming in 2.13
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New International DejaVu fonts support Greek, Hebrew, Vietnamese, Arabic etc main language groups |
http://puppylinux.org/wikka/Puppy213
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MU

Joined: 24 Aug 2005 Posts: 13648 Location: Karlsruhe, Germany
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Posted: Tue 19 Dec 2006, 07:14 Post subject:
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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
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vanchutr
Joined: 05 Aug 2006 Posts: 439
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Posted: Thu 21 Dec 2006, 07:11 Post subject:
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Thank you MU.
Your instructions are clear.
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canbyte

Joined: 10 Jan 2009 Posts: 266 Location: Hamilton, Canada
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Posted: Sat 15 Sep 2012, 21:05 Post subject:
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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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